Mail Art – Moleskine Journal Exchange

If you’ve been reading my posts here, you know I have a passion for “Mail Art.”  Here is yet another face of “Mail Art” – the “Moley Exchange.” 

 I was invited to join a Moley Exchange on my Artist Trading Card site. First you buy a moleskine journal. There are lots of wonderful styles available in these journals - for this project we use the Japanese folding journal. It’s small – 3.5 x 5.5 and 60 pages of acordian folded paper. (Actually only 30 since we won’t be using the back sides).

There are 10 artists in this group – each gets 3 pages. We each pick a theme and draw our theme on the first 3 pages. Then we mail it to the next person and they draw something in our theme on the next 3 pages. By next year, I will get my moley returned to me filled with wonderful art! The group is full of fantastic artists with all kinds of styles. It’s going to be a great experience to see what they create… and I will have a work of art to cherish forever.

I had never heard of something like this before I joined the Artist Trading Card sites. I find it so much fun, super challenging and creatively inspiring. My theme is Halloween. Pretty simple, I love Halloween – and not the cutesy side of Halloween. Other themes in our group include “Outsider Art/Dreamscapes”, “Dark Fairy Tales”, “Dark Art/Found Poetry” and one that is going to challenge me: “Mistress Mayhem’s Orbacular Tentacular Spectacular with Zombies.” 

Above is my 3 pages I’ve just completed in my Halloween theme: (Notice the ghost kitty! Also see the runes – they spell out “Skyjules,” my screen name on the site)

There is also a nice back pocket we can use. I decorated it as well as the inside cover and front page. This is where we talk about what we want the other artists to draw and add the mail route so they know who to mail it to next. Here is my instruction pages, guest sign in and “back door” (the pocket). I think I’ll put some trick-r-treats of some kind in there for each artist. Art that we mail. “Mail Art!”

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