TRAVEL. CAPTURE. CREATE. ThereGoesSaraRose.com
I started An Artist’s Tale, a monthly snail mail club, to share my travels in more depth and give you ways to use the ideas they inspire. Creating a physical version of the travel, art, and food shared on this blog has always been the goal. Each edition includes artwork to collect, an illustrated letter, stickers, and a zine with activities and an art tool to use with them.
The club follows the same process behind the work you’ve seen here. In the New Orleans post, photographs documented details such as the French Quarter’s blue street tiles. In Color Persists, flower photographs became color references. An Artist’s Tale takes that process further by giving you activities based on the colors and design of each place, then a community where we can share our photos and artwork. We’re starting with New Orleans. Each month will focus on a different place from my travels, with new artwork and activities to explore together.
Meet An Artist’s Tale, my monthly snail mail club!
My mission is Travel. Capture. Create. This is where all three come together. Each month and each place, through my travels and photographs, we will follow the colors, design, and details that inspired me there. I’ll draw from my existing experiences as well as future ones. There’s plenty in a single trip to keep working with long after the suitcase is unpacked.
The art we encounter might be a painting, but it could also be architecture, a carefully planted garden, or the lettering on a sign. I want to spend more time with those details, show you how they become artwork, and give you ways to try that process yourself.
Each monthly envelope includes:
- Kiss-cut stickers featuring my original artwork.
- A collectible 4×6 travel-art postcard, printed from my original artwork.
- An illustrated, place-inspired letter that goes further into the experience.
- A mini activity zine, with interactive activities.
- A new artist’s tool each month.
The first edition is inspired by New Orleans and will be mailed in the first week of October. Travel and art are the main focus of the club, with food woven into the stories and inspiration. As shared in my earlier posts, I rely on accounts from individuals I’ve met on my travels, giving context my photos alone cannot provide. That matters to me as this club grows: sharing my own observations while crediting the people whose work and knowledge help me understand a place.
Last Day to Sign Up for October’s Edition
Share your photos and artwork in my Discord and Instagram, linked in the zine. I’d love for us to compare what caught our attention, trade ideas, and see what everyone makes. All experience levels are welcome.
Today, September 30, is the last day to join for the first October edition. Join during October and you’ll receive November’s edition, etc. Monthly editions are mailed during the first week of the month, and postage is included.
Blog posts will also resume twice a month, and the podcasts are returning too! You’re welcome to keep following here, whether or not you join the postal club.
What’s one detail in a familiar place that you’ve started noticing lately?
Join An Artist’s Tale
Join An Artist’s Tale at AskSaraRose.com and choose the U.S. or international monthly subscription to keep receiving each new edition: An Artist’s Tale
Sign up by 11:59 p.m. Pacific tonight, September 30, for October’s New Orleans edition. Sign-ups during October receive November’s edition. Each edition is mailed during the first week of the month, and postage is included.
Share your photos and artwork in my Discord community, linked in the zine. Let’s compare what caught our attention, trade ideas, and see what everyone makes. All experience levels are welcome.
Blog posts will also resume twice a month, and the podcasts are returning too! You’re welcome to keep following here, whether or not you join the postal club.
What’s one detail in a familiar place that you’ve started noticing lately?
Join An Artist’s Tale and choose your monthly subscription to keep exploring with us by mail.
