Original postcard art. Ink and watercolor. I send them as-is, no prints. Hoping they won’t get destroyed in the mail or in weather.
Author Archives: JV
A “Stamp” stamp
I finally bought a stamp pad, so I carved a rough little “stamp” stamp that is basically a frame for whatever I want to draw and put into it. In this case, I tried out some little portraits, a question mark, a rabbit (or kangaroo?) and a mouse deer. The mouse deer has fangs, andContinue reading “A “Stamp” stamp”
Little Changes in a Big-Change World
I finally incorporated my domain in this website, so the URL is more streamlined and I have a few more options. It took several days for this change to “propagate,” as they say. But here it is. Now, after more than a decade of being an on-and-off WordPress user, I’m finally learning how to useContinue reading “Little Changes in a Big-Change World”
Eat the Sun
Ink on watercolor postcard. I’ve switched from using mostly pen to now using a brush, which has really loosened up my line. #mailart
Mail Art in Latin America
Listening to a talk by Vanessa Davidson and Florencia Bassano on mail art in Latin America. There are some ideas here that I’m thinking about. I’m using this blog also to archive some media that is meaningful to me. Mail art was “concerned with the mechanics of communication in general, [and] with aesthetic communication inContinue reading “Mail Art in Latin America”
Outgoing Mail Art
Ink and watercolor on watercolor postcard with asemics. 2/10/2025
Mail Art
Ink and watercolor on watercolor postcard, 2/16/2025 #inkdrawing
Rules of the Game #ouxpo #geomancy
Several years ago, I was working with “procedures” to make art, and it feels like a good time to do that again. It provided a fascinating rule-based activity that helped me deal with the chaos of life. Found this revision of a geomancy site I had previously consulted. One can use divination procedures to initiateContinue reading “Rules of the Game #ouxpo #geomancy”
WordPress Reader
“Ai, Lady,” as the characters swear in Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars series: How many years have I been a WordPress user, and I only now figured out that the eyeglass icon leads me to the WordPress reader?!!! Sigh. And thanks to all three of my followers! I’m once again trying to decide whether orContinue reading “WordPress Reader”
California Fires
Fire Season 2016: Soberanes 2. Acrylics on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1 in. (sold). I’ve been thinking of the “Fire Season” series of paintings I did in 2016. Perhaps I’ll take that up again. I have a different attitude towards wildfires, now, and want to explore that.
Jean Vengua 