I made 2 for this weeks Postcard Challenge hosted buy Cathy at Mail Art World.

Cathy is hosting a postcard challenge at Mail Art World.  She emails you a collage sheet to work from.   You have to use half the items on the sheet in your postcard.    The challenge goes on for 8 weeks.  Here is my postcard for week one.

I was searching for an image of a bicycle and there is a ton of stuff out there to choose from. So I thought I would just add the links here so its easier next time around. Several of these links are online stores that offer free monthly images. I read these links carefully and as far as I can tell you do not have to give credit to anyone for using these images. They all pretty much request or say you cannot sell these images on a cd or any other format but you should read the terms of use before using the image, places like wikipedia I did not read every term of use on all those links. If you have free images or public domain images and would like them linked here please email me your info at shadetreeart.com@gmail.com

Pennywise Arts

Vintage Image Madness

Art and Images by Kim

Karen’s Whimsy

Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Resources This is a huge resource!! Have fun!!

Flickr: Cairnlae’s Photostream

Vintage Resources

Webshots Home and Garden Collage & Mixed Media Free Images

Michelle Petz Graphics

The Graphics Fairy

Arts and Litature on Squido Artist Freebies

Tallulahs Everything Vintage

Silent Ladies and Gents

Sandow Museum

Dr.Macros Movie Scans

Circus Museum.rl

Here is another piece of art available to purchase at my Etsy store.

I enjoyed drawing and painting the scallop and lattice on the Pearis, Paris postcard so much that I had to do another one! Thanks Roc for inspiring me to use my stamps more!!

An article in Cloth.Paper.Scissors inspired me to make this postcard.   My backgrounds are acrylic paint on bristol smooth paper.  These were painted some time ago.  I love having a stack of handmade backgrounds at my fingertips.  Also used lots of various rubber stamps.  I have a great collection of stamps but rarely use them like this, which was fun and must do more often.   I had mentioned in a post that I needed a great stamp for the backs of my postcard.  The ever so awesome Eggstudio went online to find the stamp I now use!!  Thanks Greer.

Sunday Postcard Art’s challenge this week is Trees!! I did mine in fabrics. They were both fun to do but that Zetti Tree was a bit hard. I tried to use a die cut…. bah what a mistake. It made a nice indent in the fabric and cut in very few places so I had to get in there with little scissors to cut the swirls out.

This peacock is after “Fairy with Peacock by Philipe Wolfers”, Design drawing for a lamp, ca 1901.  Found this wonderful painting in a book Art Nouveau by Gabriele Fahr-Becker.

My postcard is done in prisma colored pencils.

They say that Artscape is America’s largest free public arts festival!! The  Baltimore Sun article. I love going to this every year, you just never know what you will find. It took us 3 hours to see the whole thing. We saw a parade of art cars which had us laughing and it ended up being the only pictures we took.

There was so much to see but these are the artists that I got postcards, cards or something from.

His wire work is amazing!! C.W. Roelle

Jaime Zollars

Catia Chien

Jason Rober Snyder

Jamie Fales

The Best vegan brownie ever!!! Brunie’s Bakery

VanjasArt

Amazing photographery:

Christos J. Palios

Art Trader Magazine has published one of my collage birds in Issue 3 Summer 2008. This is so exciting to me! Its a great online magazine. Hope you check it out!!!

All you altered rolo fans have to check this out……“Fall-Themed Rolodex Contest” Now I just need to get to work and make some rolos to submit!!