Happy Earth Day

Got a little fresh air today on a beautiful spring day and took a thirty-minute walk around the Lower Haight.  In San Francisco we are required to masks now when we are in any store, on transit, in line or anywhere maintaining social distancing is difficult.  Even just walking it seemed nearly everyone was wearing a mask.

I got to see this cool mural by Cleng Sumagaysay and Maria Carmela brightening up an otherwise boarded up storefront.  And, in honor of Earth Day, the sky was an amazing, car exhaust-free blue over Duboce Park.

Stay Home, Make Art – Day 36

Even though I don’t sew, quilting is in my DNA.  I have been inspired by quilting patterns and created quilt-themed art for many years.  Today some patchwork quilt postage stamp action.  

Stay Home, Make Art – Day 35

Blame it on those leftover Easter chocolates with their purple wrappers.  All sugared up and using some of the purple postage stamps today.

Stay Home, Make Art – Day 34

With all of us sheltering in place and staying home, there are many reports of wildlife reclaiming urban turf.  Coyotes live with us in San Francisco, but now packs of them have taken to howling in the middle of the night.  Apocryphal stories abound with dolphins in the canals of Venice and chupacabras rummaging in Albuquerque dumpsters.  With the that in mind, shouldn’t the birds and other critters break free of their postage stamps?

Stay Home, Make Art, See the Sun Come Out – Day 33

Today is about some solar energy postage.

Stay Home, Make Art – Day 32

The pair of pages done today are all about postage stamp architecture including using all these Frank Lloyd Wright stamps for a little homage to Falling Water.  

Stay Home, Make Art – Day 31

I have long been fascinated by cutaway images of the earth showing different layers above and below ground.  Today’s version in postage stamps is not the first time I was artistically inspired by those layers.