May 30 outgoing mail art

More outgoing mail

More outgoing mail art

more one of a kind post cards ready to go.

Postal art - ready to mail

I've done a group of altered post cards using post card books. You may remember I did some earlier with Ernie's Postcard Book by Tony Mendoza. This cat post card is from the same source. I don't know if they are still available, but the images are fun. Find one online if you can.
The snakey one is from the Art of Love postcard book. It was put out by Fawcett Columbine. Here are a couple made by adding a little paint images and captions.

BTW there are post card books available from Dover that you could have fun altering.

Postal puzzle follow up

Since most of the small post cards I sent out arrived at their destinations without a hitch, I went ahead and mailed another batch from the Stockton Post office. I put them in the drop box rather than taking them inside for hand stamping. A few got to their destinations but a group of 14, which the post office had banded together, came back to me with the "non mailable due to size stamp imprinted on a label attached to the top of the stack. Hmmm..... some make it, some don't. Most of these were mailed to locals, so my plan is to give them to each person when I see them. BTW none of the stamps were cancelled.

The clown - revisited

Here are a couple of variations of the clown face I did a couple weeks ago. I played with it digitally to get these effects. Part of doing that exercise is to see if I want to make changes with paint. Or leave it as is, and make the changes in PhotoShop.

He isn't meant to be scary, just sad.

The first pic I put up where I described the technique used, was on Apr. 14, Send in the Clowns.

Circus comes to town

I put finishing touches on the circus painting/collage I did this week. Here's the way it looks now.