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Saturday
The Art of Correspondence
Orly Avineri
Spontaneously making art, sending and receiving artful things by snail mail is a stress free, attractive, and desirable way to be creative and at the same time feel connected to a larger community in a new old-fashioned way. It allows us to create in a lighthearted manner, free of artistic rules, be humorous, and to also promote creative liberty all over the world. It’s a multi-layered experience. It involves the gathering of day-to-day ephemera, making of the mail art- postcards, packages, envelopes, the middle entity (post office), the receiver, and the return mail, allowing for excitement along the way. Once you create your mail art, you send it away and let it have a life of its own. So let’s make mail art, postcards, and envelopes, by working in multiple media and rich layering processes, materials, and imagery, and make the end of this workshop become the beginning of the beautiful practice of the art of correspondence.
Supply List:
- One sheet of 18” x 24”, heavy watercolor paper
- Favorite pens - Sharpies, Sakura B & W gel pens, markers, etc.
- Scissors
- Masking tape
- Favorite painting supplies
- Matte or Gel medium
- White and black Gesso
- (Distress) brown inkpads
- Liquid inks- black and favorite colors
- Acrylic satin or gloss varnish
- Misc. images associated with mail sending - old postal stamps, envelopes, letters, etc.
Optional: - Heat gun
I will provide imagery and additional things we may need
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I truly believe that the need to be witnessed by the self and by others is a human core need, to be fulfilled by the act of creating, therefore, a compelling part of my journey is the teaching of art making and visual journaling. As a young adult I had studied Fine Arts in an artists' village nestled at the foot of the mystical Mount Carmel, Israel, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, and later, Graphic Design at the University of Arts in the contemporary yet history-drenched city of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Now living in a city by the beach of Southern California with my family, I take in all the magnificence of the visual languages I have acquired along the way. I am passionate about my process of marrying multiple media to create works that are both personal and expressive.
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