Mixed Media Quickie Number Thirty-Two

Air Mail
book cutouts, painted newspaper bits, found envelope, matboard
8 x 10 inches

Okay, this is one of my favorites.  Who doesn't love astronauts?  I don't think this letter would make the trip, though.  No air in space.

Mixed Media Quickie Number Thirty-One

Special Offering
found envelopes, book cutouts, vinyl, paper
8 x 10 inches

As with my last collage, I have been waiting a very long time to finally use this vinyl line drawing of my great aunt in something.  It was originally just a test for the cutter but I don't throw anything away, and this is why.  Tells a bit of a story, different for everyone.

Mixed Media Quickie Number Thirty

Please Return
found letter, magazine and book cut outs, vinyl
8 x 10 inches

I have been trying to work in this green chair for months now.  FINALLY!  This piece reminds me of something that would be found on a porch, or in a mailbox on an abandoned house, and the chair is definitely on that porch.  But it's a bit mildewy.

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Right now I'm on my way to Des Moines for my first Vintage and Made Fair!  Send your people or yourself!

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-Nine

Percent Change
magazine and catalog cutouts, wallpaper bits, found paper with type
8.5 x 11 inches

No reason to change your clothes...just wear them all at once!  She seems to like it.

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-Eight

Believe It or Not
painted newspaper, catalog cutout, found ads, paper
8 x 10 inches

I don't believe it.

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-Seven

Secrets in Innes
found envelope, painted paper, painted found newspaper, magazine/book/
greeting card cutouts, vinyl
approx. 14 x 11 inches

This envelope is so worn it almost feels like cotton.  FYI, I think this newspaper clipping is from a paper in Hastings, Nebraska.  It's also from the '60s--big thanks to a neighbor for holding on to these until I was ready to walk by and take them (not that they knew that).

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-Six

Cleaned Out My Pocket
papers, used tea bag, comic book, wallpaper, staples
approx. 8 x 10 inches

I love working tea bags into pieces.  And staples!  I bit of a different feel than glue (although there's plenty of glue in this, too!).  The background paper is from a composition book that had my grandpa's name on the front, but it was unused.  (c. 1920)

Mixed Media Number Twenty-Five

Vacation Days
magazine/book/newspaper/catalog pieces, found photo, metallic marker
approx. 9 x 14 inches

I found this little ripped up photo on a walk several years ago of a little guy doing something Catholic (I think?).  It was one of the first found photos in the wild, and I can't believe I put it in a place I could rediscover it this many years and a studio move later.  The other papers span from the 1920s to a calendar from the 2000s sometime, found on the farm, at my other grandparents' house, in a friend's attic, in some old high school papers I kept, and at a thrift store or two.

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Mixed Media Number Twenty-Four

Cycles
found wallpaper, book/greeting card cutouts,
black and white photo on matboard, vinyl
10 x 13

This might be the last collage made with the old guys as the background.  Maybe if I find more, but the two I have left aren't quite right.

And, yeah, those are teeth there in the bottom left.  PILES OF TEETH.

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-Three

Peeping Tom
black on white photo on matboard,
cutouts from books/magazines/calendars/posters, vinyl
10 x 13 inches

His name probably isn't actually Tom.  Probably Herald.

That parasol, though.

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-Two

1943
black and white photo on matboard, painted newspaper, book
cutouts, wallpaper
10 x 13 inches

I happened to get a whole set of books published in 1943 and only realized after I finished that the dates all lined up here (this guy in the background was the KC Club prez in 1943).

Mixed Media Quickie Number Twenty-One

Filter
photo on matboard, painted found newspaper, magazine cutouts, vinyl,
greeting card cutouts
10 x 13 inches

Nice hat, dude.  More frosting!

This is a really gluttonous piece--bullets, cigarettes (I HATE CIGARETTES SO MUCH AND GET SO GROSSED OUT WHEN I SEE AN AD FOR THEM IN ALL THESE '70s AND '80s MAGAZINES!!!), cake, peekaboos...

Side note: I think about cake literally everyday.  Also cookies and ice cream.