January's Postcard of the Month

White. Quiet.  Cold.  

I  really like this month's card.  Looks rather Art Deco-ish to me.*

It's really been too cold to try to spend much time at the studio

so for this month's card,

I decided to gather papers

(I'd just found and purchased 3 rolls of this off-white (and black) sheet-music wrapping paper above)

box up  glue, scissors, ink, brushes, heat-gun (for setting inks), etc.

- materials that I might need/want to produce whatever composition I still had to compose! -

and bring everything home to work on in our cozy (wood stove-heated) living room.

I keep stacks of plastic egg and cracker containers

(like @20x as many as what's shown here)

that have varying amounts of materials left-over/not used in past months' productions.

I decided to see what pre-prepped materials might suit my vague musings re: this month's design.  

I found enough of these little scraps of music

for this month's set of cards (appears in Step 13)

plus all the gold and silver squares

- which I'd actually prepped for a couple of larger collages.**

Nice.  Less prep for this month's production.  :-)

Wanted to use this beautiful little stylized deer stamp***

I did a couple of prototypes

decided to omit the gold threads, minimize the pink horizon, and NOT use the bleeding brown ink,

but otherwise... 

The Fixin's

The Steps: The Movie: 

The Steps

(27 this month - not including the rubber-stamping)

I started by rubber-stamping groupings of 3 deer****

 Panels of 12 of January's postcards

Fin.

*I'm so Klimt-crazy, and had just finished putting together this Klimt jigsaw puzzle - 'The Fulfillment'

**The gold and silver squares were intended for inclusion in these 2 larger collages  I was working on for a display at Espresso Bueno last summer.  I still haven't finished either of them!  

This first one - Arteries, 22" x 30" - was inspired by maps of downtown Barre:

This one - Untitled so far, 14" x 17" - was based on an image of a settlement of yurts:

***Which I'd used in an earlier January PoM - January, 2014. 

I've always really liked this one, too.

****Had to change from a nice brown ink to a black one - the brown bled, even after heat-setting.  :-/