Mailart 365 has moved

100 left to go, nearly 1 year late, but who better to spur me on the final 100 lap than Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins!

So the Olympics have finished and I thought that everything about it was brilliant. I'm not a sports fan and I started very cynical but the Olympics was really wonderful.

However, there is one thing I'm still cynical about and it's the mascot. Wenlock, a one-eyed alien with no really recognisable features was clearly designed by a committee with the intention of not offending any section of society. Doesn't offend women? Check. Doesn't offend anyone of any colour? Check. Doesn't offend people with one leg shorter than the other? Check. It's so desperately conservative it's embarrassing.

I drew this piece to try to understand why they chose a sexless, featureless and frankly pointless creature was commissioned as the Olympic mascot as I find that drawing things has often helped me to understand what's going on in the artists mind.

It didn't help and I still find Wenlock totally unfathomable.

In my eBay ad for Sharpies, I specify that I will be illustrating the envelope and mention that if you want anything specific drawn I do actually take reasonable requests. So far, all my customers have declined to request anything specific, but for the first time today, I got a buyer who filled in the note, requesting a certain picture. Here's what the customer requested

hi there, any chance of a cyclist on the doodled envelope please? To maybe celebrate our greatest hopes at the tour de fance and olympics thanks Vicky

I really liked this challenge and I hope that Vicky likes what I've done.

It just so happens that much of the cycling will actually be happening in the park just behind my house as I live just behind Richmond Park. Lovely

So what does a project that involves a visit to a community garden, the olympics, some visiting Ugandans and children from two schools look like?  I had no idea.  In the end we made olympic vegetables and the kids thought it was great.  I was a bit surprised when the year 6 students turned out to be year 2 students but hey.

Made from the usual selection of magazine cuttings and some odd bits and pieces lying around, e.g. customs label, fish stamp, Musee de la Poste ticket from Paris, stamp book remnants, cat rubber stamp, so like Team GB, one day you will.....

a) win a gold medal
b) finish this 365 challenge
c) become a famous mailart celebrity!

Answers on a postcard to....!

I found the penny blacks from a stamp Prestige Book I had used previously and then in an old Saturday magazine I came across the words "They've got their generosity all wrong at the Penny Black....etc" (it is a critic review of a restaurant in London) and the two just seemed to sit well together! Added the other bits to expand and fill the gaps and here we are!

Look out the window in the morning and live life to the full...you never know what you might see!

It is now just one year until the 30th Olympic and Paralympic games kick off in London so with a bit of help from Photoshop and the Positively Postal logo plus some Royal Mail stamps I've made this postal Olympic themed countdown piece.