Vintage Stamps

For many years I have been hanging onto an old stamp collection.  As is the case with many old collections, they aren’t worth what people thought they would be.   I understand that I was never sitting on a gold mine.    This collection was started by my brother when he was a child, and I held onto them out of nostalgia.   There is something exciting about looking through these little commemorative pieces of our national history – they can even be considered mini pieces of art.

As each stamp is only worth a few cents, I also wanted to incorporate them into my own art work – to breath new life into them, so to speak.  Finally, I dug the album out from it’s spot on the shelf and assessed the collection.  Having found the “perfect” stamps, I transformed these forgotten pieces of paper in to miniature collages.   This is proving to be a fun past time for me.

Here are two of my recent creations:

The Winter Gallery
“Out at Sea”
0639 – mixed media
2.5″ x 3.5″

The Winter Gallery
“Rooster and Hen”
0640 – mixed media
2.5″ x 3.5″