Mailart 365 has moved

Before I left the UK, I was invited to deliver a talk on my REAL wall project a the Catalyst Club in Brighton.  The gentleman responsible for the Catalyst Club is one David Bramwell, who is also a postal enthusiast of sorts. If you get a chance, check out his Postal Mischief talk on the website of the British Postal Museum, which Stripygoose and I attended.

I promised him a postcard from my next project, and this is it. It's a hand-drawn version of his present Facebook profile picture. I have a bit of a thing about drawing peoples facebook profile pictures

An envelope for someone who bought a Postcard from us. I've also been doing a sub-project within my mailart 365 project in which I draw my friends facebook profile pics and see if they notice before the next upload.

So this one fits in 3 projects at once. Nice!

This is the first facebook profile pic that's going to the actual person who's pic it is. All the ones in the past have gone to strangers.

The latest facebook profile picture is Elena's best friend Alina. She's a big fan of dolphins. This is drawn on a Sharpie envelope for an eBay customer and I've used Flexmarkers for the colouring. Annabel spotted her profile pic

Lots of interest from my old schoolmates on the last one, so I thought I'd draw another schoolfriend's profile pic. I am still in touch with Annabel these days and she runs a very worthy venture over at http://safeschoolbexley.co.uk/. Sam spotted his profile pic

I went to school with this guy and he's had a T-shirt printed with his face on it stylized. A quick and easy drawing for an eBay envelope. Mim spotted hers (as did a whole load of the mailart community!)

365er Mim needs no introduction surely. Love her profile pic, even I can draw it!

Japanese mailartist Reiji Ooba is a huge Beatles fan and this is his John Lennon on a Sharpies pack. Let's see if he notices that I've drawn his facebook profile picture... Scott didn't notice his profile pic.

This is my latest drawing of a Facebook friends profile photo. It's a picture of my wife's brother Valentin, or Vali for short. Lets see if he notices it before I post my next one. Just to keep score, that last one of Jennifer was noticed before this one was posted.

450 feels like a significant number

My latest series of mailart is to draw my facebook friends profile or cover pictures and see if they notice. Jennifer's one is particularly eye-catching.

I was looking for inspiration for my envelopes when I decided to post my last piece on Facebook. My friend Tarik commented on it, being a Bruce Lee fan, so I thought I'd draw his profile pic next, just to surprise him. I think I'll start drawing a series of my friends facebook pics and banners just to see if anyone spots their work in mine...