dear diary, part 16

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26/05/20
Here’s a card I sent for a swap on Swapbot, I’m doing one every month in 2020 on the theme of portraits.

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It’a actually the other bit of the photo I used for last months, here they are back together again.

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I have cut back on the number of postcard swaps I am doing, although I’ll continue with the ones I’ve committed to. Here’s a card I made for a collaboration, I started it and it will go to 3 more people who will add to it and then it will return to me.

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01/06/20
Here’s a birthday card I made for a friend…

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18/06/20
Another card for another friend, can you see a theme emerging ?

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This is the postcard I sent in May for the Swapbot portrait swap.

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And here is my effort for June..

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Here are the first 6 months of them, another 6 to go.

Here are some cards I received in the portraits swap,
This atmospheric one..

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The sender of this one said she had the idea of “being stuck paying a mortgage for 30 years and time won’t wait”

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and this one, which is an inventive interpretation of a portrait..

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I took part in a collaborative postcard, it arrived like this..

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I added the holographic llama, cut from a Christmas card…

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I then sent it to the next person, who completed it.

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26/06/20
In this blogpost I mentioned a swap I did involving security envelopes. I received these pieces from someone I met in a Facebook group..

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and I had to make something with them and send it back to her. it’s arrived now, so I can share it. I started by doing a blind contour drawing and then collaging it with the patterned pieces.

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I included some extras in with the postcard, a piece of card that I had painted and stencilled and some old photographs.

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Speaking of old photographs , I described in this blogpost an exchange I did with Jane Chipp an artist I admire who does great things with old photos, in a respectful manner. Here is one of the photos I sent her..

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You can see what she did with it here
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBqZ73PJ_wQ/
Isn’t it lovely!
Check out her other altered photos as well,on her Instagram page she’s doing them for her 100 Day Project and they are really inventive and charming, I think.

Not much else to report, made a customised beret

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I made an infinity scarf with 2 twists instead of 1, by mistake and have yet to decide if I need to change it.

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I customised a charity shop jacket..

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Oh and I also joined in with the #artistssupportpledge  a fantastic initiative from  @matthewburrowsstudio where artists sell their work directly to customers because other sale outlets are closed. For every £1000 worth of
sales they pledge to spend £200 of the money made on art from artists
participating in the pledge. Anyone can buy, not just other artists. You can see the items I have available as part of the pledge here
You can read more about the scheme here
http://www.matthewburrows.org/artist-support-pledge

That’s all for now, ta for reading.