Dear Laura, I like how said in your last letter, “the feathers became little worlds, both abstract and real”. You are right that one of our themes is feathers. We have several with landscapes too. I think the reason why our collaboration works is that our muse is similar. Another reason is that our work is wildly… Read More
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct”. ~Carl Jung Dear Tina, How are you my friend? I have to say that the last package you sent me lit me up! I love how you included my collage and painting from all those years back. It was… Read More
Hello Sweet T~ How are you? Fall is happening here in New England and bringing with it all it’s glorious color! Although I am sad to see summer go there is a beauty and crispness in the air that I savor. Fall has a scent that I cannot clearly describe. It is embedded in my… Read More
Dear Laura, After receiving your newest piece of the collective in the mail (scroll down to see the damage of the package received in the mail- yikes!), I took a walk in my garden seeking what is blue. Of course, I found the blueberries. We have been picking them the last few weeks and adding… Read More
More work is accumulating in the correspondence project we have developed called “The Collective”. Currently, we have about 20 pieces completed. Each piece is in conversation with all the other pieces in the collection. See the collection in its entirety HERE. Enjoy!
Dear Tina, I SO loved that gold shimmer you added to your last drawing for The Collective! It reminded me of the sun sparkling on the water here in CT. I also appreciated what you shared about the Great Blue Heron. What a graceful bird! Their long legs made me think of flamingos, a bird I have been intrigued by… Read More
Dear Laura, For our newest addition to our mail art project “The Collective”, I created this drawing in response to your latest piece of art. While sometimes I respond to pieces in the box from weeks ago or a combination of them together, this piece is a direct link to this one: I have… Read More
Dear Tina, Thank you so much for the little brass Ganesh you put in The Collective box. I put him on my desk as a reminder to remove obstacles in my life. I continue to recognize that my obstacles are mainly thoughts that do not serve me. When I let them go and focus on… Read More
Dear Friends, Our mail art project is growing! Below is a picture of the works we have created this summer. We will be updating the progress of this project monthly. You can view all the work under COLLECTIVE on our website at any time. HOW IT WORKS: When we get the package of artworks we… Read More
Dear Laura, You are right that this Vision photo you gave me is my color palette. While you may not be enjoying the cold up there, I do admire the beauty the snow brings. I miss the quiet of a snowfall. Somehow those flakes soften the sound that always brought me right to the present time. I… Read More
Dear Tina & friends, I had so much fun participating in the stitched postcard challenge! Believe me, it was a challenge with the sewing for a non-sewer but always nice to stretch myself! I first created the painting with the “celebration” theme in mind. I was thinking about nature and how I always feel so… Read More
Dear Tina, You can imagine my surprise when I received this delightful postcard in the mail! I was just as excited as each time I receive mail from YOU! It came from a new friend I met while doing my first artist talk. Remember how nervous I was? Her name is Gail Turgeon and in… Read More
Read more about this project HERE Vision 3: Home Read our notes about these photos HERE ReVision 3 Notes, in process photos, and the final ta-da…. Hello Sweet T~ I loved seeing the light in your sea grass. BEAUTIFUL! I have to say for as much as I write, walk… Read More
Read more about this collaborative project HERE. Our Vision #2 Tina’s ReVision #2 Dear Laura, Your Vision post had me thinking the past ten days about time spent with good friends. I believe we are lucky to have a few good friends that will listen to us in this life… Read More
Last weeks Vision Learn more about this series HERE ReVision Dear Laura, I was inspired by what you wrote about your garden for your Vision and headed out into my garden to see what I could find. I began thinking about the variety of plants we have added over the years. We… Read More
Receiving something like this in the mail has always been a thrill for us. This is how our correspondence and collaborative art began back in 2006. All our work since: the squared postcard, collaborative book, Vision/ReVision, and Two Artists One Surface project have all stemmed from this enjoyment of a gift in our mailbox and… Read More
A jazzy hello Tina & friends~ I have been inspired by LOVE this week and have been creating cards with fanciful hearts on them in lieu of my postcard for the week. I started them on Sunday by painting an abstract watercolor that I then cut up and added to. My intention was to have… Read More
*Learn more about our Mail art project HERE! Tina’s process for making a postcard for Alyssa Tina’s Working Table Notes: Looking out of my studio window I watched the oak tree move in the stormy weather. I captured that through a pencil drawing and collaged that with maps and sewing with orange thread. Tina’s postcard for… Read More
Dear Friends, This is our third week of creating and sending off postcards in the mail. We have really been enjoying this process! Tina’s Working Table Notes: I started this postcard and then reinvented it as I went along. What you see in the process photo is very different than what I settled on. I… Read More
Hello Friends, This is our second week of shifting our Working Table from a general peek into our studio work to a more refined peek at our Postcard Project. In these Working Table posts we will be discussing our thinking and processes with materials for creating a postcard. See our original post HERE. If you… Read More
Our ‘Working Table’ has been an ongoing series of posts that allows you, our readers, to step into our studios and see what and how we are creating our artwork. We would like to expand this idea and add in our practice of mail art. Mail Art has history in all of our lives. Think… Read More
Hello Tina & friends, As you can imagine I am busily preparing for my trip to Italy (in just twelve days, but who’s counting!) as well as finishing work for ACGOW‘s new show, opening September 1st from 5-8:00pm. It promises to be quite a party that I am sad to say I will miss-Can you believe… Read More
Dear Tina & friends~ I thought I would share some pictures of you from the Artini night I taught at the Mystic Arts Center on thursday. I taught a basic, expressive acrylic painting lesson, similar to the techniques I will teach in my upcoming Mixed Media class at MAC. There were about 25 lovelies, and… Read More
