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Postcards from my collection;
A set of six postcards sent from Charlie to Maudie during February and March 1904. You may remember a previous post about Charlie and Maudie here
Thanks for spending some time with Maudie, Charlie and me...
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In the first autumn of World War I, a German infantryman from the 25th Reserve Division sent this pithy greeting to his children in Schwarzenberg, Saxony.
11 November 1914
My dear little children!
How are you doing? Listen to your mother and grandmother and mind your manners.
Heartfelt greetings to all of you!
Your loving Papa
He scrawled the message in looping script on the back of a Feldpostkarte, or field postcard, one that had been designed for the Bahlsen cookie company by the German artist and illustrator Änne Koken. On the front side of the postcard, four smiling German soldiers share a box of Leibniz butter cookies as they stand on a grassy, sun-stippled outpost. The warm yellow pigment of the rectangular sweets seems to emanate from the opened care package, flushing the cheeks of the assembled soldiers with a rosy tint.
German citizens posted an average of nearly 10 million pieces of mail to the front during each day of World War I, and German service members sent over 6 million pieces in return; postcards comprised well over half of these items of correspondence. For active duty soldiers, postage was free of charge. Postcards thus formed a central and a portable component of wartime visual culture, a network of images in which patriotic, sentimental, and nationalistic postcards formed the dominant narrative — with key moments of resistance dispatched from artists and amateurs serving at the front.
The first postcards were permitted by the Austrian postal service in 1869 and in Germany one year later. (The Post Office Act of 1870 allowed for the first postcards to be sold in Great Britain; the United States followed suit in 1873.) Over the next four decades, Germany emerged as a leader in the design and printing of colorful picture postcards, which ranged from picturesque landscapes to tinted photographs of famous monuments and landmarks. Many of the earliest propaganda postcards, at the turn of the twentieth century, reproduced cartoons and caricatures from popular German humor magazines such as Simplicissimus, a politically progressive journal that moved toward an increasingly reactionary position during and after World War I. Indeed, the majority of postcards produced and exchanged between 1914 and 1918 adopted a sentimental style that matched the so-called “hurrah kitsch” of German official propaganda.
Beginning in 1914, the German artist and Karlsruhe Academy professor Walter Georgi produced 24 patriotic Feldpostkarten for the Bahlsen cookie company in Hannover. In a postcard titled Engineers Building a Bridge (1915), a pair of strong-armed sappers set to work on a wooden trestle while a packet of Leibniz butter cookies dangle conspicuously alongside their work boots.
These engineering troops prepared the German military for the more static form of combat that followed the “Race to the Sea” in the fall of 1914; they dug and fortified trenches and bunkers, built bridges, and developed and tested new weapons — from mines and hand grenades to flamethrowers and, eventually, poison gas.
Georgi’s postcard designs for the Bahlsen company deploy the elegant color lithography he had practiced as a frequent contributor to the Munich Art Nouveau journal Jugend (see Die Scholle).In another Bahlsen postcard titled “Hold Out in the Roaring Storm” (1914), Georgi depicted a group of soldiers wearing the distinctive spiked helmets of the Prussian Army. Their leader calls out to his comrades with an open mouth, a rifle slung over his shoulder, and a square package of Leibniz Keks looped through his pinkie finger. In a curious touch that is typical of First World War German patriotic postcards, both the long-barreled rifles and the soldier’s helmets are festooned with puffy pink and carmine flowers.
These lavishly illustrated field postcards, designed by artists and produced for private industry, could be purchased throughout Germany and mailed, traded, or collected in albums to express solidarity with loved ones in active duty. The German government also issued non-pictorial Feldpostkarten to its soldiers as an alternate and officially sanctioned means of communication. For artists serving at the front, these 4” x 6” blank cards provided a cheap and ready testing ground at a time when sketchbooks and other materials were in short supply. The German painter Otto Schubert dispatched scores of elegant watercolor sketches from sites along the Western Front; Otto Dix, likewise, sent hundreds of illustrated field postcards to Helene Jakob, the Dresden telephone operator he referred to as his “like-minded companion,” between June 1915 and September 1918. These sketches (see Rüdiger, Ulrike, ed. Grüsse aus dem Krieg: die Feldpostkarten der Otto-Dix-Sammlung in der Kunstgalerie Gera, Kunstgalerie Gera 1991) convey details both minute and panoramic, from the crowded trenches to the ruined fields and landmarks of France and Belgium. Often, their flip sides contain short greetings or cryptic lines of poetry written in both German and Esperanto.
Dix enlisted for service in 1914 and saw front line action during the Battle of the Somme, in August 1916, one of the largest and costliest offensives of World War I that spanned nearly five months and resulted in casualties numbering more than one million. By September of 1918, the artist had been promoted to staff sergeant and was recovering from injuries at a field hospital near the Western Front. He sent one of his final postcard greetings to Helene Jakob on the reverse side of a self-portrait photograph, in which he stands with visibly bandaged legs and one hand resting on his hip. Dix begins the greeting in Esperanto, but quickly shifts to German to report on his condition: “I’ve been released from the hospital but remain here until the 28th on a course of duty. I’m sending you a photograph, though not an especially good one. Heartfelt greetings, your Dix.” Just two months later, the First World War ended in German defeat.
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Mr. Bunny has delivered new boxes of postcards! Art Directors will want to keep on the lookout. I've always liked to print things and look at them - so I was especially chuffed to open these boxes.
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*** All cards from my own collection
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Three of my favourite Springtime postcards illustrated by Rene Cloke;
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Above is a little summary of our New England vacation. A little Cape, a lot of New Hampshire, including a hike through the Flume Gorge, which I had never seen before. I was tickled to find these in a little shop in Bethlehem, NH. I love when old postcards come with messages on them. The bottom one was written by someone whose vacation mirrored ours, fifty some years ago.
I have lots to share, including some digital paintings I did while we were away. I finally finished Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. I highly recommend it, especially if you’re an introvert or have a loved one who is. There are lots of us, so you probably do! I learned a lot.
Hubs and I enjoyed listening to Rob Lowe’s memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends on our car trip (read by Lowe), and we’ve almost finished listening to Yes, Chef, a memoir by Marcus Samuelsson. Really fascinating and read by Samuelsson himself in his fabulous scratchy voice. His story begins in Ethiopia, then goes on to Sweden, throughout Europe, and on to New York City as he follows his dream of becoming a master chef.
Loved this post of fun summer things to do with your kids, by Blair Stocker of wisecraft. Also, this spaghetti monsters post over at elsiemarley made me smile—it’s part cooking, part craft, and all silly fun.
What have you been up to?
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The second most clicked-on blog post I've ever written was about sending promotional postcards to publishers. So I thought I should devote another post to covering that topic in depth.
What is my most clicked-on blog post, you wonder? An illustration I did of Peter Rabbit for Theatreworks USA's production. You wouldn't believe how many people search the web for "Peter Rabbit" every day!
Back to promotional postcards. If you're an illustrator looking for work in the children's book industry, one of the ways to get your art considered is to send promotional postcards to publishers.
I would say the first step would be to go to a bookstore and read, read, read the kinds of books you want to illustrate that are currently being published. Learn how the illustrations interact with the text. Study the illustrations and the publishers. Write down the publishers of the books that you think match your own artwork. If you love drawing dragons and sword fights, then sending postcards to that publisher who seems to publish only baby bunny books would be a waste of postage. Writers, you do the same thing here to find publishers who would be a good match with your manuscript.
2008 postcard sent to publishers |
Should you send postcards of your art or your whole portfolio or what? Read the submission guidelines of each publisher carefully. Some may only take email submissions. Some only want postcards. Some want to see more. The vast majority will accept postcards. Postcards are easy for them - no envelopes to open and no scary virus possibilities with attachments - and they can see at a quick glance if your art is something they'd consider. You MUST put a website on your postcard where they can see more of your illustrations. When I was sending postcards to publishers, I liked to have one illustration and my website on the front of the postcard. That way, if someone tacks it to a board, they have my website right there on the front. This postcard of the little drummer boy I sent in 2008 to hundreds of editors and art directors. Editors have a say in choosing illustrators too, so send postcards to editors and art directors who work with the kinds of books you'd like to illustrate at each publisher. You can find names in CWIM, SCBWI's lists, Harold Underdown's "Who's Moving Where" section, SCBWI conference faculty, etc.
2010 postcard sent to publishers |
What should you put on the back of the postcard? The rest of your contact info and you can list other books you've illustrated. You can also include some little spot illustrations like these penguins on the back of my postcard from 2010. I had written a manuscript about these dancing penguins and sent this postcard as an art sample. In case an editor would be interested, I included a line saying, "These illustrations are from my WIP dummy, Penguin Cha-Cha-Cha." There were a few editors interested who contacted me to see my manuscript after receiving this postcard! Another editor found the illustrations on my website and asked to see the manuscript and then acquired it! PENGUIN CHA-CHA will be published by Random House Oct 2013!!
Current postcard marketed to people buying books |
Where do you get the postcards printed? There are loads of online printers. I've used Vistaprint and Overnight Prints with success. I've also ordered samples from PrintRunner and plan to order stickers and magnets from there.
What size? I like the 4" x 6" size because it's cheapest to print and mail. You can do larger sizes if you want to include more detail or info on it, but check with the post office to see at what point you need to buy a full price stamp instead of a postcard stamp.
The first trade children's book that I illustrated was a direct result of a mailing I did. I had sent art samples to Shen's Books that had a little Asian girl on them because I knew they were a multicultural picture book publisher. Right then they were looking for someone to illustrate CORA COOKS PANCIT and the timing was perfect! I had been sending illustrations out for some time before that bite, so don't give up if this is what you'd really like to do. I had been fine tuning my illustrations to work for trade books by attending SCBWI conferences and getting portfolio critiques by children's book art directors. Those critiques and conferences were instrumental in helping me develop my work along the way, and I still go to them to continue to grow!
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Best wishes on your postcards!
Note to conference planners: This is a subject that I would love to speak on at conferences!
(CWIM giveaway winner coming up later today!)
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Spring Give Away ~ 5 card set
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Time for another IFK promotional mailing. This time our theme was "a rainy day." I'm so lucky to be a part of such a talented group of artists.
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planning to have these mailed out by the end of may..right after i make some edits and revisions to my mailing list:)
also, a print of this illustration entitled 'teamwork' can be found FOR SALE here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/76543425/teamwork-reproduction
nothin' like a little 'teamwork'...;)
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Good news! I have an agent! I’m being represented by the wonderful Barry Goldblatt of bgliterary!!!
Some of you might be thinking to yourself, “I know that already, I saw it on Twitter!” That’s true, we did announce it on Twitter, in the middle of December, when everyone was busy with holiday travel, parties, and family visiting. Unfortunately, according to all the writer and illustrator friends I saw at the SCBWI NY Conference, they didn’t see that announcement. So I thought maybe I should say something about it on my blog.
You might be wondering why I didn’t announce it on my blog earlier. Here’s the deal. I didn’t want to say anything until I signed the contract,* which I did today! Maybe that’s old fashioned of me (or me being paranoid that it didn’t really happen). I just wanted to make sure before I announced it to the whole world (outside of Twitter, of course).
Now that I’m sure, I can officially announce that I have an agent! WooHoo! Yippee! You should have seen me dancing around the apartment when he offered!
If you were at the conference, you might have seen the announcement on my postcards. (The contract was at my house, so I knew it was real enough to put into print.) If you weren’t at the conference,** and want to see the postcards, here’s the written proof of my new agent!***
This is the front of the postcard. It’s an image I’ve been working on for a long time (I also have watercolor and acrylic paintings started for this image, but liked this version the best and decided to finish it for the conference postcard).
This is the back of the postcard. The cat came from a sketch I did on a dry erase board! The dog came from a regular sketch (using pen and paper).
So now that you know I have an agent, I can go back to posting on my blog again and not keeping secrets.****
2012 is off to a great start!!! Hope the year is off to a great start for you too!!!
*Why didn’t I sign the contract earlier? The day after I accepted Barry’s offer, I left town for three weeks. When I came back, Barry went out of town. Then he came back and I found out that I hadn’t given him my address so he could send me the contract! After he sent it to me last week, I couldn’t send it back because I was at the conference. So I sent it out today.
**I’ll be posting notes from the conference later this week.
***This post is a bit silly, but I am seriously happy about signing with Barry and excited to start working with him! I have a feeling that with Barry in my corner, 2012 is going to be a really good year.
****I was crossing my fingers when I typed that, which makes it really hard to type, but also means that I can still keep secrets if I have to. Because sometimes you just can’t announce things (like agents) until you have a contract, you know?
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You know I’m busy at work when instead of going through art samples with my morning coffee, they pile up on my desk. Today, I finally took lunch to sort through a few. Check out some exciting new finds that came in lately!
Casey Uhelski / For pet lovers (like me!), this SCAD grad has mastered the expressions of adorable dogs, cats and bunnies.
Victoria Jamieson / Victoria’s anthropomorphic characters have landed her a two-book gig with Dial (part of the Penguin family) in 2012/2013. In the meantime, I think her revisiting of Ramona Quimby is spot-on.
David C. Gardiner / This image might suggest that David and I are cut from the same cloth, stylistically, but his Flying Dog Studio also produces everything from fairly realistic older characters to animations.
Caitlin B. Alexander / This Austin-based illustrator’s folksy-yet-modern style looks mostly editorial, for now… but wouldn’t it make a charming children’s book?
Veronica Chen / I was intrigued by her intricate black-and-white patternwork, but her color piece Chameleon City just begs for a story to be told.
Jillian Nickell / This quirky, vintage-inspired vignette was fascinating enough to lead me to her website, where there’s a great series of pieces based on The Borrowers, and more. I can picture her style being perfect in the right book for older readers!
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copyright becky kelly studio, llc all rights reserved, worldwide rights fairy and mermaid postcards available now! New! Mermaid Image~ Enter below for a chance to Win!~ This image is inspired by the encanted story of Peter Pan, from the "Mermaids Cove" ~imagine stumbling upon an enchanted mermaids cove~ ~discover mermaids gossiping, primping and playing upon the sunlit rocks.The
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Cool little known reference books on vintage postcards:
Since we Canadians are coming up to an election I thought I’d share something patriotic. Unless you are a postcard collector you probably won’t come across these books. They’re produced by Michael J. Smith, who has been collecting vintage Canadian postcards for a loooong time. Although written for collectors and focusing mainly on cataloguing, the book I just bought has 900 colour reproductions of cards from 1903-1920 or so. (Image here is from vintagepostcards.org)
You can also read an essay here by Michael on vintage postcard collecting.
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After Struggling with D.I.Y. postcards, they came to the rescue
Who sells the best paper for D.I.Y. postcards?
I have gone through many different papers, spending lots of money, and now have stacks that I probably will never use, just to find what's right for postcards.
I've been determined to save by making my own, but to purchase cardstock strong enough just isn't possible without spending loads of money.
I gave in and just started to make them with the best quality matte paper I could find. Unfortunately customers found this paper still too flimsy. So I moved on to the idea of having them professionally made.
Who can provide the best price for the best product?
I went to overnightprints.com, zazzle.com, vistaprint.com, and yet I couldn't find a deal that allowed me to continue charging the price I had in my shop. When I broke down the numbers, it was still too expensive...and I wasn't going to charge $7 for one postcard. You crazy?!
I almost came to just settle with the fact I would have to undercharge and pay extra to offer postcards.
Who came to my rescue?
Bindery 1. Enough said. They're a local printer here in Des Moines, ran by the lovely Renatta and her family. Name sound familiar? She also runs Lotus Moments Event Center where I just recently had my Artist Reception.
Most large binderies and printing companies probably wouldn't bother with a small business artist who needs a handful of postcards. What a waste of time and money! They're accustomed to thousands to be printed off for one client.
Bindery 1's passion to serve everyone, large and small, makes them unique. I had a couple hundred postcards printed for the artist reception and was impressed with the price AND the quality! Not to mention the turnaround time.
After many questions and her patience, I plunged and ordered 500 postcards. HUGE order......for little 'ol me.
I can now offer professional grade, strong, vivid, and affordable postcards to my customers while staying local! Who knew a business would be so willing? The new postcards will be offered soon. :)
The Bottom Line:
Don't be afraid to approach your local binderies and printers and get a quote from them. There might be someone out there who is willing to do the small run to support you, and in turn it will support them! And if you can't find anyone, contact Renatta at Bindery 1!
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April 2—The prompt for day 2 is to write a postcard poem. Make it brief and communicate what it is like where you are. Also, make it personal.
Postcard Wishes
By Bill Kirk
Just got to my “room”.
There are windows galore—
On all sides, in fact,
From ceiling to floor.
A post at each corner,
In the middle, a mast;
We’ll tie off our hammocks
Oh, wow! What a blast!
We’ll sleep in “plein aire”—
A canopy above.
We four happy strangers—
Hey! What's up with the shove!?
What do you mean
Those "shoves" are a gale
And our very large tent
Is now a large sail?
You’ve got to be kidding!
Pack up my gear?
Vacation is over?
Wish I weren’t here....
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Remember these little guys? Well they've now turned into postcards. Get them here, in the shop.
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HeHe! Yes! I knew Barbara and Terry were visiting...!
It was on the news...All roads in Somerset/Wiltshire,
were on 'red alert'....! :).
Barbara has just informed me that 568 people have read,
this post so far...Brilliant! Thankyou one and all...! :).
That would explain the police escort then Willie!
The world would be a much happier place if everyone adopted your attitude Lee. I’m with you, lets all have more fun! I'm wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year. Barbara
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for visiting, Barbara.
Thanks so much Eve. Happy Christmas to you and yours, I look forward to visiting your blog in 2017. Barbara
Goodness Me! :).
I've had quite a few e~mails...Thankyou....
Mostly asking me two questions...
1) What is my most favourite song of all....?
That would be...Kool and Gang...Cherish..1985.
Followed closely by Whitney Houston...One Moment
in Time..1988. (Love Whitney).
2) What do l think about myself...How would l sum
up Willie Wine...?
HeHe! Bless! Here we go then......
"I'm not a control freak, l just happen to be a highly
driven, focused, motivated, extraordinary and inspiring
leader, and yes, you may take time out to listen to my
advise and no, you may not do things your way..". :).
How wonderful. Circumstances have me feeling less than festive so I really appreciated this fun post. thanks for putting a smile on my face Willie.
OMG. This was such a great post. Thanks, Willie:)
Waving to Barbara.
That's what it's ALL about Tracy...
Putting a smile on peoples faces..! :).
HeHe! I looked at the word..Circumstances
...twice...First time, l thought...'Hello!
l'm not Jewish'..! :0).
Thankyou Sandra...
I think Barbara loves a good wave, either
at the hairdressers or on the beach.....!
Look out here comes another one....!!! :).
Hi Willie, I’m with you re Whitney but would have to choose ‘I will always love you’ as my favourite of her songs. Just love it!
I would always listen to your advice, but I don’t promise to take it – I’m a woman who likes her own way! :-)
You are not wrong Willie!
Thank you Sandra – can you see me waving? :-)
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said....
"A woman is like a tea bag..you can't
tell how strong she is, until you put
her in hot water". :).
Eleanor never said a truer word! xx
Barbara, what a amuzing post! I adore the images too! Thank you so much for sharing :) Happy holidays :)
This was an amazing post with beautiful images, I loved reading it. And you have awesome memories!
Thankyou for that!
And, yes, l tend to live in the past,
quite a lot..love my memories of my family
and friends...!
As we used to say..."It's a great life, if
you don't weaken".
Thanks so much, Merry Christmas :)
That first cartoon was especially funny.
Have a great one, Barbara.
Goodness Willie, you're a riot! I couldn't help laughing (no matter how many muscles there), especially the part on Grandma. Keep doing your thing and have the merriest Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and Terry, too, Barbara! xoxo
Thankyou Claudine...Thankyou...! :).
It's been fun, and Barbara tells me
there have been well over 1000 views
on this post, and l've received quite
a few e~mails...Great fun!
And may you and yours have loveliest
Christmas to...! :).
Happy Christmas Claudine, I will be over to see you soon. xx
You too Sandra.
Absolutely loved this post. Thanks for all the laughs. I had a cat who used to sit on my chest. No he did not dribble but he would purr as loud as he could to wake me up😂
Hi Shashi, I've not lived with a cat since I was a little girl, but I remember how they always seem to get their own way. Bless them, I do love them but Terry has a real problem with them. The funny thing is when visiting friends with cats the cats would always rather sit on his lap than anywhere else in the house. He hates it! It makes me smile because I’m sure the cats know exactly how he feels, which is why they do it. :-)
So glad you enjoyed Willie’s post, it was lovely to have a visit from him on my blog. Barbara x