Envelope & Skinny Alphabet Book pg R

Mixed Media (Front & Back)
5.75 x 4.5 inches

Purchased White Commercial Envelope
Acrylic, Ink & Artistamp/Fau Postage Digital Drawing/Painting Stamps

Digital Drawing/Painting Scrambled Addresses

This is the next step in my Mail Art envelope pieces as Mail Art containers.

Sending it without using a sticky label worked fine. Unless there is a reason for it i dont think i'll have to use the labels. cool on that.

There are no postage stamps on this one because it was going out of the country. The stamps when applied were great.

It would be fun to see how one of these arrive. What additions are added along the journey. My philosophy is that what ever happens in the post becomes part of the piece. ...not that i want a lot to happen, but i have to be able to let go of that stuff some how, understanding it as part of the process helps in that acceptance of what happens.


R is for Raku, Rubbing & Ream

Mixed Media
4 x 7 inches

Watercolor, Colored Pencil Rubbing on Rice Paper, Photograph, Digital Drawing/Painting

This is the next Skinny Alphabet Book page - the letter R with dimensions. this was a challenge for me because of the way i've chosen to create my Skinny Book with Digital Technology.

I've simulated the Grommets and attaching the Rubbing altho in the final form i could do this and that would create the dimensional part of the process. At this point the piece is an adaptation of the Challenge (to use dimension in the work) in that respect.

The Raku Cylinder Cup is one i did a number of years ago while in upstate NY altho i photographed it on the day i created this Skinny Book page (a day or two ago). I like it. it works well for my R word in the Skinny Book - imo.

Skinny Alphabet Book Pages

These are pages for my Skinny Alphabet Book. I called it an Artist's ABZ Book. The alphabet goes from A to Z, yes. . . rather than from A to C. . .

Skinny Books are usually 4 x 7 inches.

I chose to work with actual materials as well as Digital Technology.

Among other things my pages so far have included Watercolor, Acrylic, Ink, Digital Scans, Photographs and Digital Drawing/Painting.

This is a long term project in that i'm doing about one page a week. It's part of a challenge in a group where i'm a member.

A random letter is given as well as a technique or some item, or thing to
use within the page.

We are about half way through the alphabet altho i think i may redo my covers.

i like the way the pages are turning out. the way i had intended to bind the book may not have been the best choice so i'm considering some other options at this point.

i'm also having fun.