urban postcard art exchange

[Stanley Edwards]

any volunteers for stan's bonus postcard?

PM me anybody?

I have already done my postcard. It won't be like what anybody expects!

 

[Miss Caphat]

you're supposed to pm the op. read the directions

 

[killer b]

i'm using these postcards by daler rowney btw. i think you get 25 to a pad, the card is lovely to work on.

http://www.artistsmaterialsonline.co.uk/product.php?cat_id=3&sub_id=67&pro_id=206

 

[Onket]

Firstly, I misunderstood this a bit, I think. I thought it was just 'a postcard', but now I see that I'd have to actually create something.

Secondly, I must have missed this thread pop up in my alerts, as I've only just looked at it again since I originally posted.

PM sent to the killer anyway.

 

[killer b]

You can just send a postcard if you like. Art is what the artist chooses it to be.

 

[Onket]

Hippy.

 

[DaveCinzano]

If anyone gets an enthusiastic crayon rendering of Eeyore eating a plateful of lasagne and chips they'll know whence it came, then.

 

[Onket]

Got to think of something else now.

 

[ViolentPanda]

i'm using these postcards by daler rowney btw. i think you get 25 to a pad, the card is lovely to work on.

http://www.artistsmaterialsonline.co.uk/product.php?cat_id=3&sub_id=67&pro_id=206

What's the texture like, smooth/polished, or more like cartridge paper? I'm thinking of doing a linocut or a small intaglio or woodblock, but finding decent paper/card is going to be difficult. I've got loads of smooth/polished card, but i'm not sure how well it'll take relief-printing.

 

[killer b]

Its pretty textured. Should take a lino print nicely I reckon.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Its pretty textured. Should take a lino print nicely I reckon.

Cheers. I'll take a punt and buy a pack!

 

[8115]

I know what I'm doing!

I got the same postcards, from the post office.

 

[Edie]

I need inspiration!!

 

[killer b]

find something that looks pretty, and draw it. that's what i did anyway.

VP - i bought some more of those postcards today (and some pocket watercolours), and there's actually 12 to a pad. they sell them granthams and the like cheaper than that website too.

 

[cesare]

Done mine (unless I think of something better) so need to go to postbox at some point now

 

[Greebo]

I need inspiration!!

So do I

 

[DaveCinzano]

I need inspiration!!

So do I

Well, this one's going free:

an enthusiastic crayon rendering of Eeyore eating a plateful of lasagne and chips

 

[Greebo]

Well, this one's going free:

*does not like*

 

[DaveCinzano]

There's a reason it was going free

 

[Greebo]

There's a reason it was going free

 

[Edie]

Well, this one's going free:

I may do this

 

[ViolentPanda]

find something that looks pretty, and draw it. that's what i did anyway.

VP - i bought some more of those postcards today (and some pocket watercolours), and there's actually 12 to a pad. they sell them granthams and the like cheaper than that website too.

Ended up buying a pack of 20 Hahnemulle ones, slightly lighter weight (250gsm as against 300gsm for the Daler-Rowneys), but the texture is a bit coarser, so it'll provide (hopefully) a better key for the ink.

Granthams. Is that some Northern thing?

BTW, any restriction as to subject, or is it basically "anything that the Post Office won't burn"?

 

[cesare]

Anyone up my way in East London should try Atlantis art suppliers just off Brick Lane, can pick up some decent supplies at reasonable prices.

 

[Belushi]

Planning to do mine over the weekend, post to the lucky recipient Monday.

 

[killer b]

No restrictions vp. Do what you like.

 

[Greebo]

Done.

Or about as done as I'm going to let it get before IMHO it becomes over finished.

Edited to add: Photographed and about to get it put in the post to make sure that I don't get tempted to improve it.

 

[clicker]

Ooooooooh stop buying posh paper.....I feel underdone!

 

[Greebo]

Ooooooooh stop buying posh paper.....I feel underdone!

FWIW mine was done on one of those cheap blank postcards, and whichever pens I could lay my hands on.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Ooooooooh stop buying posh paper.....I feel underdone!

I only bought "posh paper" because everything else I've got to hand is a bit too smooth to take a lino-print well, otherwise, I'd have just used one of Greebo's blank postcards.

 

[cesare]

I've got my postcard!!!

It must have taken ages to do, I love the colours.

Do we photograph and post em up, or what?