Altered Transfer Postcards

Guerrilla Students created mailable art! Art can be interactive and communicative. The post is a great way to communicate. Sending art out into the community is a big goal of ours. Mailing art is an awesome way to achieve that. This is Postcard Art.

First they learned how to make a tape transfer. This is an awesome process for transferring found images (from magazines) to packing tape, thus resulting in a transparent image to use for collaging onto another surface.

Next, students used 3 or more media to create a background for their work. The objective of this step was to STRETCH AND EXPLORE how different kinds of media can interact with each other. Students could work representational or abstract as they chose. They were to consider color, texture, and layering of different media. Students ENVISIONED how their chosen images might look layered over the background, thus helping them make choices in creating the background.

Thirdly, students altered their tape transfers so that they no longer looked like strips of tape. The objective was to have transparent images to use for their background. They could choose to alter by:
DECONSTRUCTION: cutting up transfer images and reassembling to be unrecognizable as an image, but read as color, texture, line, shape (abstracted)
SELECT: Choosing parts of the image to cut and use (discard rest)
They had to make thoughtful choices about where the images should be glued to incorporate into the background successfully.

Lastly, students worked back into the background using paint, paint markers, & colored sharpies to UNIFY the whole piece. The objective was to make sure that transfer images were fully incorporated into the background as a unified whole work.