Mail Art

For Take a Word's mail art challenge - Stamps made with photographs I took at an abandoned silk mill up in a mountain town not far from my home.

Credits: Judy at Touch of Class (postmarks and ribbon), Holly at Three Potato Four (pressed flowers), Picstopin (blank stamp outline), j_myspace (envelope paper), Darleen Araujo (background paper).

St. Patrick's Day

For Sunday Postcard Art's St. Patrick's Day challenge

The underlying text is the version copied into a 10th century Lives of the Saints now held by the national library of France of Patrick's 5th century letter to his church superiors in his native Britain.  It both presents his background and his defense against those who have objected to his demands that Britons stop their violent raids on his Irish converts.  The white text at bottom is the opening lines in modern English.

Clicking the image will get you a larger version.

Thanks for having a look.

Sláinte!

Vögel

For Think Monday - Think ATCs & More's birds challenge - Bosch Vögel. Yes, the robbery of dead artists continues. They don't put up much of a fight.

If you click the image, you'll get a larger version.

Credits:  Hieronymus Bosch, Andrew Smith

I severely altered Smith's stock tarot design to make mats for 2.5x3.5" ATCs, but his design got me to thinking that Bosch major arcana cards would be fun.  Now hunting through his incredibly intense and imaginative images for tarot-ish details.  When I first saw his work, I must have been 14 or 15 and I felt like I had to hide the book.  It was like I wasn't supposed to know that adults were as crazy as kids, even adults in the 1400s.

I should be altering things more, shouldn't I?  All right, then.  Next week I will.

Show and Tell

For Inspiration Avenue's show and tell challenge - Something old.

I stitched together this panorama of New York Harbor from eight images shot in rapid succession from the deck of a Staten Island ferry in October 2011.  It captures roughly a five-mile span.  The hazy day made everything silvery except the orange ferry churning in the opposite direction.  The shadows of clouds darken areas of the water between the ships and barges and their wakes.  A seagull looks kind of like a UFO at this small size.

On the left is Port Jersey, then Paulus Hook, Ellis Island, Jersey City, the Statue of Liberty, the Hudson River, lower Manhattan Island, the East River, and Governors Island at the right along Brooklyn's shore.

Clicking the image will open a slightly more detailed version, but I'm afraid panos aren't meant for Blogspot.

Thanks for stopping by.

Da Vinci

For Think Monday - Think ATCs & More's Da Vinci challenge - I played with one of his horse sketches.  Couldn't bring myself to embellish them, though.  Nothing I tried to add improved them.

An image of the original sketch is here (once on that page, click the sketch to get a much larger version to play with).

Thanks for stopping by.  I can't be online much right now, so please don't feel ignored.  I appreciate your comments and peek at your work every chance I get.