Thursday, July 8, 2010

CANTHARIDIAN CYBERSTAMPS/ 'Digital Serial Art'/ A Penny Post Edition for 2010/ FROM THE CINDERELLA PUBLISHING HOUSE LTD, LOCATED IN THE MICRONATION OF CANTHARIDIA/ Fantasy Stamps by Eric Whollem





Penny Post
Royal Post Office of Cantharidia
2010
by Eric Whollem
digital art
Copyright by the artist

Digital Serial Art

The faux postage format is one of my favorite ways of
interpreting the multiple color and textural versions of
an image generated by digital means.


Love of Night
CANTHARIDIA
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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Cantharidia is one of the numerous micronations that I have
developed over the years. Among these fantasy nations are
Shambhala Nor, Amphitritonia, Urissakzillia, Amphora,
Undinia, and the Republic of the Moon, most of which have
examples of their stamps on Art Blog/Eric Whollem.



A Map of Cantharidia
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST



The Love of Night is a cyberstamp from
my online collection of stamps from the Cantharidian Post Office.




The Love of Night
CANTHARIDIA
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST



Cyberstamps
THE CANTHARIDIAN POST

2001





The Love of Night
CANTHARIDIA
2010
by Eric Whollem
a sheet of cyberstamps
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST


Serial Art became popular in the sixties during the
'Pop Art' movement, when artists like Andy Warhol gave us
multiple images of commonplace objects like the Campbell's
soup can. Many of his portraits were done as serial art.
Serigraphy served well for the color variations in his serial
art, as the silk screen medium readily adjusts to changes
in ink color during the printing process.


Other serial artists include Constantin Brancusi and Josef
Albers. Sculpture as well as painting and printmaking are
mediums that lend themselves to serial imagery.


The Love of Night
CANTHARIDIA
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST


This is a video showing a set of stamps from CANTHARIDIA:




Below is another sheet of cyberstamps from Cantharidia,
which feature Thetis, the Goddess of the Sea. These stamps
allow me to show varieties of digital serial art. Tonal and
saturation variations are arranged in a faux postage format.



Thetis
CANTHARIDIA
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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For more about Serial Art see:

To view my Cyberstamp gallery view this link:

To see my complete online gallery of Artistamps check out:
http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/artistamps



       Love of Night    
CANTHARIDIA   
2010    
by Eric Whollem    
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST       

To see just my other stamps from Cantharidia see:
http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/cantharidia

The video below is a sample of my other CINDERELLA STAMP VIDEOS:



Stamps of Merreminde                                  

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