Oct to Kate and Sharen - Donald Sutherland stamp

I had mixed feelings about Kate's, but it grew on me. The style on Sharen's is one that I enjoyed doing with nibs and ink and was curious if I could do it with a marker. It's OK. The overall design needed something else. 

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Here's a Canadian postage stamp. In Canada, unlike the US, they will issue stamps. to honor people who are still living. I like the design of this one, especially the proportion. It would have been lovely on Sharen's envelope. I'll add the blurb that went with the article, written in Dec of 2023. He died in June of 2024.

I emboldened my favorite part of the article. The article is from linns.com - Linns is (I believe) the place to go for stamp collecting.... I've known about it forever, but somehow had never visited.

Actor Donald Sutherland, whom Canada Post honored on a stamp issued Oct. 19, 2023, would like you to send him a postcard franked with the stamp. 

During an interview that aired Dec. 12, 2023, on the podcast Q with Tom Power, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC), Sutherland said fans have been sending him letters in envelopes franked with the stamp.

“People have sent me letters just because they wanted to send me a letter with my stamp on it,” he said.

After the interview, he followed up with the CBC with an invitation for anyone to send him a postcard franked with the stamp. Those interested can address the postcard to Donald Sutherland, General Delivery, Georgeville, QC J0B 1T0, Canada.

Sutherland told Powers that he considers the stamp his greatest achievement. 

“When they showed me this stamp, I felt that everything had come together,” Sutherland said. “You know, when you’re 88 years old — very nearly 89 — it means a lot, a stamp, because we grew up writing letters … . The stamp for me is everything, just everything!”

Sutherland was born July 17, 1935, and acted in the films Kelly’s Heroes (1970), M*A*S*H (1970), Klute (1971), Fellini’s Casanova (1976), Ordinary People (1980), The Italian Job (2003), and The Hunger Games (2012), among others.