{"id":58,"date":"2021-11-25T16:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:06:47","slug":"making-art-from-old-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/making-art-from-old-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Making art from old postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pulled out a box of old postcards from the late 1970s and early 1980s the other day and started looking through them. These were postcards that I had bought as a kid on family vacations (many of which involved riding in the far back of a station wagon without any seat belts … how about that!). I had some ideas running through my head for using them for artistic purposes, but when I happened upon a pair with a similar scene, the ideas came together.<\/p>\n

First I saw a postcard from our trip to San Francisco, which was a view of “the crookedest street in the world,” Lombard Street, which has 8 turns in one block. As I continued to flip through my collection of postcards, I then saw one for Highway 34 in Colorado which leads to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park … and it was another curvy road. It made pretty clear sense to me that I should combine these two curvy roads into a surrealist view and see what I could come up with … and here it is:<\/p>\n

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Highway 34 in Colorado merging into Lombard Street in San Francisco; digital art is © Mark McKinney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m intrigued by the result and will be doing more vintage postcard mashups!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I pulled out a box of old postcards from the late 1970s and early 1980s the other day and started looking through them. These were postcards that I had bought as a kid on family vacations (many of which involved riding in the far back of a station wagon without any seat belts … how … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[215,355,448,473,607,663,720],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-by-mark-mckinney","category-collecting","tag-colorado","tag-highway-34","tag-lombard-street","tag-mashup","tag-postcards","tag-san-francisco","tag-surrealist-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}