Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: postal art

  • 30 paintings in 30 days – vivid sunrise

    As part of an artistic challenge, I am planning to do a painting every day for 31 days. Leslie Saeta is leading the challenge, and over 300 artists are participating. EEEk. My first painting is an attempt to capture the intense sunrises we have around here when the cloud cover is almost complete, just a…

  • Merry Christmas silly card

    So I responded to a silly Christmas card challenge. “Send me a Christmas card” he said, and the only rules are the words “Buddy Holly” have to be on the card. So, the left side of my brain says “I don’t want to have anything to do with Buddy Holly on a Christmas card” and…

  • An opportunity to make a postage stamp!

    Being a big fan of postal art, I became very excited when I heard about this swap. Initially I had to buy a post card, which cost about two dollars and came all the way from England. The blog, Friends and Faux, is filled with wonderful examples of filled out and partially filled out cards.…

  • And back to Enza!

    I have been painting a lot of postcards lately because of the mail art swaps I have been doing and Enza is the one cat I have that actually enjoys modelling. In the first painting, she poses regally on her red throne. In the second, I roughed her fur up a little to make her…

  • My father as a boy

    My father was born in Newark, NJ, in 1920 to two Italian immigrants. The midwife misspelled his name, so instead of being Alfio, he was named Alfredo Luigi Torchia. He was born at home, a first generation American. So much time has passed since his childhood that I realized it would be interesting to try…