Dear Liza,
I have been making postcards again! This is sort of a new thing for me, and I am not consistent about it. I will go weeks doing all sorts of other projects, and then make three or four in an afternoon.
For the base, I use those annoying junk mail postcards that sell everything from candidates to wheel alignment.
For the images, I use Portal magazine from the Portland Art Museum, Better Homes and Gardens, Via from AAA, and old magazines, postcards and greeting cards I pick up at garage sales and give away boxes. There are also bits from Ruthie Inman and daubs of acrylic paint.
I mix them together my weird brain and trim, paint and glue. Then I decide which friend is best suited to the card. Yes, I do have some weird friends.
The images can be cute or disturbing, artsy or just silly.
I’m glad that art lets me take the weird out of my head and send it to the ones I love!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 