Fi Webster's photos with the keyword: handmade postcard

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Artists at Home." The golden head (before I added the eye) is "Sleeping Muse," a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi. It was on the cover of a magazine that arrived in the mail today! I love it when that happens.

This cut-paper collage postcard is a remix of Paul Gauguin's "The Bathers"—created for the swap-bot challenge "Altered Art." I used reproductions of four Gauguin paintings: The only thing here that's a literal quote from "The Bathers" is the waterfall between the two women on the right. The four Tahitian bathers (two dressed in pareos, two nude) were traced from the painting and cut out as silhouettes from depictions of sand with shadows & flowers in two other paintings. The background is from a Brittany landscape.

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Museum of Curiosities, Art Gallery of Surprises" From minimal to maximal: I seem to be going to extremes this week. The crowd photo was taken in 1956 (in case you're wondering about those dresses).

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Museum of Curiosities, Art Gallery of Surprises"

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Fairy Tales." I'm from Texas. I say "howdy" and "y'all." I grew up riding horses in a western saddle, and I love chili peppers, especially jalapeños. So this is my take on "Jack and the Beanstalk." I don't mind admitting it: that pepper plant was a nightmare. Cutting it out took a lot of time-- no problema . But when I went to glue it down, it fell into a jillion pieces, and I nearly went crazy figuring out which leaf went where. I think I did OK, though, 'cause my botanist husband says it looks all right to him. If I ever do something like this again, I'm going to make a printed copy of it before I cut it out, just for reference when disaster strikes.

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Left-over Bits." The bird is a scarlet ibis, the national bird of Trinidad. Its color comes from the red crustaceans it eats. Tattooed man from a 19th century French medical textbook: I guess medical publishers in those days weren't above including an occasional gee-whiz picture! I wish I knew where the man originally came from, but I don't. Also: mysterious Spanish text, washi tape, rubber stamp, and photo of water from Discover magazine.

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Left-over Bits." Background from Juxtapoz (an art magazine). Winged figure from Design Toscano catalog. Words from a book on the circus. Person in chains from an early 20th century poster for an escape artist, with head from Barbie doll catalog. Green thing from a photo of a sculpture (circa 2010). Boy it feels good to get these old scraps off my work table!

Cut-paper collage postcard. The French sentence, "Parfois le rire de Dada fait pousser une chimère," means "Sometimes Dada's laugh makes a chimera grow." (A chimera is a mythical beast composed of three different creatures.) Foot is that of a Rüppell's vulture ( Gyps rueppellii ), resident of the African plains. Middle section is the stinky part of a wild arum ( Arum maculatum ), related to the famous giant corpse flower. The human ( Homo sapiens ) is from a 1950s ad by Clipper Craft men's clothes for their "Mr. Cool" suit. Speech bubble is from Haunted comics.

Cut-paper collage postcard created for the "Un-Color" swap I hosted on swap-bot. I chose brown as my un-color—from the palest brown of computer punch cards, faded newspaper, and old bone, to the tan of paper bags and corrugated cardboard, to siena, chestnut, and the darkest sepia. The title is a slogan of the United Parcel Service.

Cut-paper collage postcard created for Kollage Kit theme: "Homage to Richard Hamilton." Richard Hamilton is best known for this collage . I decided to take this theme in a slightly darker direction, to at least put some Angst into it. =laugh= Background paper from Luxe Paperie. Interior from a 1960 magazine ad for Knoll textiles. Diving bodies from a 1959 ad for Kellogg's Corn Soya cereal (which looks disgusting). Man's head from a comic book called G. I. Sweethearts . Woman's head from a comic book called Adventures into the Unknown . Text from a 1959 ad for Pepsi-Cola. (It's amazing how much inane text magazine ads used to have.) ______________________________________