Two to Frank and one to Davonte

 

Back in early May, there was a post inviting people to drop a birthday greeting in the mail for someone who had a sign in his yard. I saw the sign when I was in Chicago and remembered seeing a sign that he was turning 100 - and that was 5 years ago. I'm sure he was delighted with his surprise mail from random people. Here is the one I sent. 

Here is the one I sent to Davonte. I posted his name and address a few weeks ago after I met him at the main post office and he was so interested in mail art. I wonder if anyone else sent him an envelope. If you did - feel free to send me a picture. I wish I had asked people to send photos.... Real-time update. I was at the PO and saw another envelope from an exchanger - I will post it tomorrow.

I finally tried out my alcohol markers. They were a generous gift from someone after I made one too many comments about not having alcohol markers. I now have them and there is a learning curve. I appropriated this concept and will look for the inspiration photo.

Wow - I can't believe I found the inspiration photo. It is not my style at all - but, it was fun to do and a good way to figure out how alcohol markers work. They are bleedy. So you have to decide whether to outline after doing the shapes and strokes - or to do the outlining and then fill in. I guess it doesn't matter. Either way - you have things that work and things that don't. I outlined Davonte's name and in the photo it looks really ratty -- so ignore that part.