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

Volume 9 / Number 7

February 2011

In order to be a margin doodler, first one must have margins.

Margin Mailart

Calgary, Alberta February 27,

Looking at the paintings I have found over the last year has resulted in quite a few of them being not to my liking. However, as all of them were on illustration board of various plys I thought they might make excellent mailart items. In painting over the stuff I had an idea to play with the literal concept of margin doodling. A central image surrounded by a painted border that I would doodle on. Fifteen paintings got covered and fteen paintings were made using the time honoured technique of nger painting (which was a lot of fun). I decided that the doodles would be of various cartoon elements I have created over the years. Quizzical Suns, Lollipop Trees, Mitten Clouds comprise the majority of the doodles and there are a couple of paintings that have a domino theme as I intend to send one of those paintings to Vincent Pons (http://ponsvinc.blogspot.com/) as he has a thing with dominoes.

Margin Mailart. #1 (Suns Peeking) 9.75 x 6.75 inches (Gail D. Whitter) acrylic & ink under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

copyright 2011 Theo Nelson / www.whimsyandcolour.com / tnelson@bexx.com

Margin Mailart. #2 (the Sun Sees) 7.75 x 5.75 inches (Ron Emolo) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 3 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #3 (Lollipop Trees) 6.75 x 4.875 inches (State of Being) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #4 (Prairie Icons) 7.875 x 5.875 inches (Ruud Jannssen) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #5 (Lollipop Trees) 7.875 x 5.875 inches (Jennie Hinchcliff) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #6 (Square Jawed Obelisks, Lollipop Trees) 7.875 x 5.875 inches (Larry Angelo) acrylic, gel pen & ink under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #7 (Mitten Clouds & Suns) 9.75 x 7.75 inches (Dame Mailarta) acrylic, gel pen & ink under gel medium on 3 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #8 (Mitten Clouds & Suns) 9.75 x 6.75 inches (Carol Stetser) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 3 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #9 (Square Jawed Obelisks) 9.75 x 8 inches (JF Chapelle) acrylic, gel pen & ink under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #10 (Square Jawed Obelisks) 9.875 x 6.75 inches (Patty Patty) acrylic, gel pen & ink under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #11 (Mitten Clouds & Suns) 11.75 x 9.75 inches (Darlene) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 3 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #12 (Suns) 15 x 10 inches (Cascadia Art Post) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #13 (No Title) 14 x 10.5 inches (R.F. Ct) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 3 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #14 (Dominoes) 15 x 10 inches (Ross Priddle) acrylic & gel pen under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board

Margin Mailart. #15 (Dominoes) 15 x 10 inches (Vincent PONS) acrylic, ink & gel pen under gel medium on 2 ply illustration board