It was making mail art cards that finally got my creative juices flowing again.  I've made probably 30 or so now... and I should have taken a photo of the guest room where I've got some stuff set up.  Here's one of them that I digitized, so it could be printed on canvas as a digital painting.

I'm getting back to making monotype prints again, using a "gelly" pad.  Dusted off the little one I have which is 6" x 6" and found that acrylic was better to work this way than ink.  I'm a new member of the Monotype Guild of New England and was excited that they were putting up a show in October at the Umva Gallery inside the Portland Media Center this year and was going to begin working on a piece.  But they have pulled all their shows for the rest of the year.  And who could blame them.

Here's one of the prints I made in getting my chops back in that genre of art. But then I took it into the digital realm adding a medieval woodcut to the piece.  What's centuries old is NEW again - plague.

We don't really know when/if the UMVA Gallery will reopen.  Infection Rates are going down now in Maine and personally I think we should be open for the tourist season in the summer here.  But others disagreed and now we're looking at maybe September or October.  Personally I think we'll be seeing the 2nd Wave then, but I'm no epidemiologist.  Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.  I think our infection rates will begin to rise again with the tourists and I hope I'm wrong.

We've lost many good people during this pandemic and the racist police brutality which is another pandemic in itself.  A great photographer has left us.  Read the obit about Elsa Dorfman, who used a honking huge Polaroid camera in her studio in Cambridge, MA.