Mailart 365 has moved

Not sure about this one - made it - adding it to my tally but ho hum about it

How to make the most chocolate pudding - splash paint, take a seat or two and wear a smart shirt and tie! :)

I am currently in the midst of putting together a mailart project in conjunction with a new set of Royal Mail stamps, "The A-Z of The U.K.", due out on October 13th.

My own mailart contribution is The Forth Railway Bridge which I cross over at least four times a year on our trips to Scotland with my daughters. I won't repeat all the info. relating to this piece here, I'll direct you to the Positively Postal website where you can read all about it and find out about the other twelve places in this initial part (part two M-Z to follow in April 2012). Let me know what you think.

This was sent to Bris Cris who send me an awesome bit of flood art!

012 and 013 are both made from some art that I made in Chinese Culture class last week. I love writing and painting on rice paper instead of computer paper - it feels so soft and authentic.
For 013, the pine needles reminded me of the spokes on my favorite bicycle stamp, and I had to put it on the card!

Here is a fanciful interpretation of the night sky. If, for a few nights, everything became literal, I think a lot more people would invest in telescopes. I know I would!

5 days ago, I started this piece, with the intention of making a piece of art with a fat marker pen. As everyone was making fish at the time as part of an unofficial "fish week" initiated by FarStarr I felt an urge to make a fish.

The koi carp made a lot of sense on this card and the result was fairly pleasing to the eye. But I felt something was missing. So I got the glue out and stuck tissue paper around the outline. This was still wet so day 5 was missed, but I did still feel that this piece belonged to day 5. The next day I returned to the piece and splattered 2 tubes of cheap paint all over it. I've never really used paint so didn't really know what I was doing but I just knew I wanted an emerald pond effect. I had no idea it would take so long to dry, so it couldn't go up for days 7 or 8 either.

When Elena saw the end product she too wasn't too happy and wanted to add something, so days 9 and 10 were out too, as she worked on the quilled lotus flower.

So this piece is a joint effort beteeen me and Elena, 2 days late for her, 6 days late for me, but still numbered #5/#9 anyway!

This is Elenas first 3 dimensional piece and she's really pleased with the effect.



This is on it's way to Dumpsterdiversanonymous, who has been a longtime contributor of fine mailart to my REAL wall