Highly recommended by Cascadia Artpost for the bookshelf of every mail art
creator or anyone curious about artistamps and postal art is a new softcover
book by San Francisco artists Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler,
Good Mail Day (Quarry Books, 2009, $19.95 U.S.).
Filled with how-to pointers and abundantly illustrated, Good Mail
Day brings together a lot of information in one place about mail art. The
book's chapters cover topics such as:
- Getting started with mail art
- How to put together a traveling mail art kit
- Drawing ideas and raw materials from the environment around us
- How to make and illustrate envelopes
- Working with paper
- Postal experiments
- Creating artistamps
- Developing one's postal personality
- Mail art projects and networking
As added inspiration, bound with the book in the back are some blank postcards and postal stickers.
For more information, see the website http://www.good-mail-day.com/. The artists also have a website for their Podpost at http://www.podpodpost.com/.
5 comments:
It arrived!! It arrived!! A naked CD mailed to "And Beanie"!!! I'm soooo happy!! (i'm seriously behind in my blog mail updates but I will be posting pix of it!!)
I got MORE MAIL!! Addressed JUST FOR ME! Beanie!! With postcards in it!! thank you so much!!
I'm almost catching up on my mailblog posts!!
I got the Sock Monkey stamps!! I got the Sock Monkey stamps!! I LOVE 'EM!
You've been Very Good to me!! Thank you Millions for the book which arrived yesterday!!!
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