February 7, 2010
February 8, 2010
Februaty 9, 2010
More ATCs from the Cathedral Series with a gold stripe in the center. All are acrylics on matboard.
Showing posts with label artists trading cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artists trading cards. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Project 365 Days 26, 27, & 28
January 26 2010
January 27, 2010
January 28, 2010
These cards are from the new series Homage to Eve Aschheim, an American painter. These cards freely interpret her works consisting of lines. This reminds me a bit of the Constructivist art of the 1930's and the Russian Avantgarde, Lisitsky comes to mind immediately.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Project 365 Day 22 - 25
January 22, 2010, January 23, 2010, January 24, 2010, January 25, 2010
These ATCs were made for a Monochomatic Swap on AFA. They are all colored pencil and marker on watercolor paper. The titles are Dinner Soon!, Nice Hair, Standing Tall, and Storm. I had great fun making these cards and I let the creative juices flow freely. I like these images and although they remind me of the images of late painter Phillip Guston they are totally diffrent from his imagery. I think I will make few sculptures with these kind of images. The last card is a gift for the hostess.
Project 365 Day 19, 20, & 21
January 19, 2010
January 20, 2010
These ATCs are so called Zentangles. They are black marker (fine Sharpie) on poster board. If you have never tried Zentangles you missed a good thing. Just divide an ATC into irregular areas using somewhat curvy lines and fill each area with some sort of line, symbol, visual element, or geometric graphic. Observe that there is no such thing as a bad Zentangle. They are all pleasing to the senses.
Project 365 Days 16, 17 & 18
January 16, 2010
January 17, 2010
January 18, 2010
These ATCs are from the Crime Series and are titled Tire Marks and Fingerprints #1, #2, and #3. These cards are acrylic paint on matboard. The "tire marks" were made by dipping a corrugated cardboard in paint and stamping it on the card. "Fingerprints" are my fingerprints.
Project 365 Days 12 - 15
January 12, 2010
January 13, 2010
January 13, 2010
January 14, 2010
January 15, 2010
The ATCs for days 12, 13, 14 are a part of 3 card series Homage to Agnes Martin that I just started and are part of an Abstract Geometric Swap on AFA. This is a watercolor and graphite on paper.The last card which obviously is not part of the Agnes Martin series is for Day 15 and is a gift to the hostess of the swap. It is acrylic color on matboard. The title for thios card is Grass in Moonlight.
The "grass" was created by stamping a staight 6 inches long palette knife dipped in acrylic paint.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Project 365 Day 8
January 8, 2010
This ATC is the last card in the Cathedral Series for now. I will make more of these cards but I think I will use different paper.
Project 365 Days 5, 6 & 7
January 5, 2010, January 6, 2010, January 7, 2010
These 3 ATCs are in the Cathedral Series. There is one more.
These 3 ATCs are in the Cathedral Series. There is one more.
Project 365 Day 3
January 3, 2010Yes, you've guessed it - this is Cathedral Series ATC. The details are same as for the previous ATC.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Artists' Trading Cards
Artists' Trading Cards or ATC's for short are gaining popularity across this continent of ours. For those of you who have never heard of ATC's, they are cards the size of sports trading cards made by artists. In the ATC movement there are only two rules: 1. The ATC must be a card the of a sports trading card that is size must be 2 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in. 2. ATC's are traded, never sold! Otherwise anything goes. Any art techique and genre is acceptable. This is an ideal hobby for kids, grown ups, seniors, artists, non-artists, in short it is a hobby for anyone. The small size is great for beginners because they do not have to spent hours on end to complete the work. ATC's are intended for trade not for sale.
Originally, ATC's were made by artists to exchange with other artists and to get their work out there into the world. These days it's a hobby for people. Hobby that is quick, gets results fast and ATC's are collectables. People like the fact that one can build a fine collection in relatively short time. There are groups created just for thyis purpose. If you want to check out ATC's in greater detail go to http://www.theatcexchange.com/ . This is a small group of ATC enthusiast actively trading their creations. Or you can visit http://www.atcsforall.com/. This is a very large group and there is always something going on for everyone.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
NEW HOUSE SHAPED ATC's
I'm taking part in a swap on Yahoo Group "ATCS for All". This is a swap where people create a house shaped ATC and fill it with whatever strikes their fancy. I have created 3 house shaped ATC's. My first ATC houses. I fist cut out the shapes and then gave the cards a background cover. I chose blue because it is the most un-house color. I was contemplating fire engine red color but that seemed too wild to me. Then I put some collage pieces on the cards and gave it several uneven sporadically placed coats of acrylic color. Some thick, I was thinking about stucco; some thin washes as in paint on a house that is at least 100 years old. And voila, house shaped ATC's are here.
The first ATC has some sad clowns on it. The idea occured to me when I was reading about the bad housing market and foreclosures. People who overextended themselves will probably lose their houses unless they do something drastic hence the sad faces of otherwise happy people.
The second card has big window on it, or is it a glass door? In any case it's the way to get inside the house. I put a big cat in the house and some goodies and spices for the people who live there. Goodies so they don't go hungry and spices so the house smells nice. The cat is huge because cats usually rule the house and do pretty much what they want.
The third house is a picture of an old house, maybe 200 years old. To me it looked like one of those houses that should be in Gotham City so I titled this ATC Goth House. The house itself is now probably an apartment house because no single homeowner today can afford an upkeep for such a house unless, of course, that person is a corrupted government official of some obscure Third World country government who can afford such houses because their people pat for them although they cannot afford their own houses. Sort of like government pensions here; people are forced to pay lavish pensions for government workers yet these selfsame people cannot afford to pay their own pensions. This house personifies that kind of situation to me.
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