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You’ve Got Mail—5

Artist MaryAnn Shupe recently wrote a blog post about her need to start somewhere, which led me to remember and share with her a painting I did nearly a decade ago with an embedded declaration that the point is to start!, which sparked questions and email conversation about the hand-lettering I’d incorporated, which took me back to memories of reading David Shannon’s children’s picture book No, David! to my then much younger granddaughters, which made me mindful of the artistic inspiration and delighted lightbulb moments I experienced while taking in Shannon’s illustrations, all of which in turn coalesced last week to point me serendipitously toward a decision about how I would hand-letter the messages on my current series of postcards to granddaughters at Camp Takodah!

And the Bugle Toots Hello
3.5 x 5″ postcards; acrylic and ink on card stock
abstract neurographica
2023
back of postcards
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8 responses to “You’ve Got Mail—5”

  1. Joyful Puttering Avatar
    Joyful Puttering

    That is one crazy long fabulous sentence about one thing leading to another. Thanks for the shout-out! I’m kind of chuckling because I just wrote a post about one thing leading to another. Continuing to love your postcard project!!! These two are just lovely!

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      Dotty Seiter

      LOL—just commented at your blog about the synchronicity of our posts today before discovering your comment above!

      Back story: I spent some thoughtful time composing this post … only to lose it to cyberspace and have to begin all over again, a task that INFURIATES me! I find it frustratingly difficult to recreate something that I’ve already composed and brought to just where I want it—my creative brain kinda shuts down and my logical brain can’t let go of wanting back EXACTLY what I lost.

      Thanks for your ongoing cheerleading with this project : )

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  2. Lola Jovan Avatar
    Lola Jovan

    The point is to start…sending bugle toots to celebrate this perfect sentence, which sends me off to my own studio to START! xo

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    1. Dotty Seiter Avatar
      Dotty Seiter

      Back in the day when I was a camper at Takodah, someone at camp was a bugle player and blew Reveille to wake us, To the Color at flag raising and lowering, and Taps after evening program. Love that you’re adding bugle toots to signal art starts, Lola—PERFECT!

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  3. carolee36 Avatar
    carolee36

    Just start! A very good mantra for anything! Your grandkids must be so proud showing off their daily cards!

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    1. Dotty Seiter Avatar
      Dotty Seiter

      I’m curious as to what they might say when I see them after camp. Mostly I envision their delight/satisfaction at having mail to receive every day, regardless of art or message : )

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    Sheila Marie Delgado

    Haha. 🙂 These are gorgeous! I love the messiness, and the lovely palette. I got lost in a neuro video tutorial vortex the other day. So interesting to watch. :)d Have fun, Dotty! 🙂

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      Dotty Seiter

      Thanks for this comment, Sheila. I’ve been wanting to get back to some neuro-art with painted ‘chaos layer’ starts I created back in June, but I’ve been paralyzed. Maybe a video vortex will spin me into action.

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In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.

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In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.

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