On the Canvas of Life, I am a Margin Doodler.

Volume 9 / Number 9

March 2011

Margin Mailart - Tiles

Part two of a mailart theme.

Calgary, Alberta March 10,

Once upon a time I put a painted border around my paintings. This was especially so with my Tiles. Averaging ve by ve inch rag covered 3-ply board, they reminded me of tiles thus my name for them. As my painting output has far outstripped my sales and gifts over the years I have quite a few pieces that can be re-purposed as mailart. Here are the rst batch of Tiles with margin enhancement. :) I found a white pen prior to working with this batch. I like it! Of course, silver gel pens get a workout and there was even a bit of Pigma pen use. The black ink - too chicken to use a nib freehand. :)

Margin Mailart Tiles #1 (Ficus Strangulensis) painting: Sun, Partially Obscured by Nose January 1995

Margin Mailart Tiles #2 (Linda Cunningham) painting: Linear Prairie, Rockies & Artemis #1 September 1999

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Margin Mailart Tiles #3 (Rmy Pnard) painting: Square Jawed Obelisks near Wheatinyoreer, SK March 1998

Margin Mailart Tiles #4 (Wendy & Don) painting: Gulf Island December 1995

Margin Mailart Tiles #5 (Luigino) painting: Mitten Clouds over the Prairie February 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #6 (Kazunori Murakami) painting: Prairie and Mitten Cloud March 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #7 ( Lindall) painting: Prairie Horizon With Mitten Clouds March 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #8 (Julie Hagan Bloch) painting: Linear Prairie, Receding Mitten Clouds January 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #9 (Darlene) painting: Space #4 May 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #10 (Alice) painting: Space #3 May 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #11 ( Kay Sluterbeck) painting: Space #5 May 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #12 (Pistol Pete) painting: Space #8 September 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #13 painting: Seen From Space #9 June 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #14 (Zivka S.) painting: Mountains and Sun July 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #15 (Thompson) painting: Space #2 May 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #16 (Cheryl Penn) painting: Space #1 May 1999

Margin Mailart Tiles #17 (Al Ackerman) painting: Landscape With Binary Suns January 2000

Margin Mailart Tiles #18 (Anna BaNaNa) painting: Cloudbank With Moon Peeking September 1999