A Treat from Ryosuke Cohen

I received a nice surprise from mail artist Ryosuke Cohen. He has been doing his Brain Cell Fractal project for many years. For more about his project, visit http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~cohen/info/ryosukec.htm.

good girls, bad girls

The Helen Gurley Brown quotation felt just right for this vintage card touting a local rest stop. I sent it to Mrpotani, but it seems to have been lost in the mail.

altered dutch sheep

A Dutch postcrosser got a kick altering this "real Dutch sheep" with the addition of Dutch tulips, ocean view, and flags.

altered grapes

These 'wild grapes' came from a German postcrosser from Bavaria.

altered athens

A Greek postcrosser added different strips of patterned tape to perk up this multiview card, which shows Athens and the port in her native Pireas.

altered miro

A Japanese postcrosser made fabulous use of his passion for stamps in this altered card of a Joan Miro painting. Arigatou!

Baseball Cards

First full day back in the studio I didn't feel like getting back into my paintings. Instead I made a series of 6 postcards on Japanese ballplayers. From top to bottom: Ichiro, Matsuzaka and Darvish. The cards in the left column are painted with watercolors and coated with fine glitter; those in the right column are watercolored and overlaid with hairnet.

Altered Postcrossings

A pensive collage card from an Italian postcrosser

A collage card from a Russian postcrosser living in Finland

Schmutz and sticker card fom a postcrosser in Germany

A half-finished tiger/leopard card from a postcrosser in Belgium

I asked for altered cards in my postcrossing profile and am getting quite a number of inventive cards. Altered card images are uploaded on my postcrossing account as well as in this blog.

Altered Thanks

We celebrated Audrey F's birthday a few weeks ago at Cheryl Burke dance studio. Audrey sent this fabulous stickered and double-sided altered card as a thank you.

Flora-themed Postcard from Jacqueline

Sepia postcard made from 1950's ikebana photograph


Reconfigured torn photograph overlaid on aborted postcard, embellished with India ink, fabric paint and torn word fragments. Texture feels like scarred flesh. Wonderful!

Altered Postcross

Wonderful word bubble card from a postcrosser in the Netherlands


A young lynx surrounded by lenticular stickers from a postcrosser in Poland

about-to-be-altered card

A couple of Dutch postcrossers, one of whom works in a hospital, sent this clever postcard. All of the design elements peel off to turn your mouse into an ambulance. On the back of the card, the couple attached a mini-photo of a wren they sighted on a walk the day they sent the card. A red letter day for me.

panda, baby

Mrpotani took an outsized tag on a t-shirt and added panda stickers to make this twice-altered card.

latvian stamps

These sweet stamps are courtesy of a postcrosser in Latvia.

Just Read It

A wonderful altered postcard from Jacqueline. I'm trying to decide whether these are ingredients for a Turkish dish.

martta wendelin

A Finnish postcrosser sent this vintage card by Martta Wendelin (1893--1986), a famous magazine and book illustrator.

judy johnson-williams

This carved cardboard image by Judy Johnson-Williams is called American Woman. Mrpotani sent the card.

altered fantasy

A Croatian postcrosser sent this little fantasy, embellished with a stamp from his table tennis club.

altered music

A Polish postcrosser altered this view of the Academy of Music in her town and drew a guitar and saxophone on the back.

once again stamps

Fabulous, fabulous stamps from a Finnish postcrosser who used a vintage (well, pre-euro) stamp of midsummer roses on a vintage postcard. The charming stamp of the little girl blowing a traditional birch bark horn, once used by cowherds, is more recent but looks vintage.

Love the Yiching pot in these stamps from a Chinese postcrosser.

A Czech postcrosser sent this nifty selection of stamps.

Google tells me that Arrowtown is an old gold mining town, known for its spectacular scenery.


The striking design of this Polish stamp celebrates astronomy.

Love these stamps from Croatia.

And these familiar ones from Brasil.