Artist's Trading Cards

Artist's Trading Cards (or ATCs) are great fun, don't necessarily take a lot of time and offer the ability of creating a lot of work at one time. If you are reading this blog, you probably already know about ATCs but just incase...they are diminutive works of art about the same size as sports trading cards, 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (63 mm X 89 mm). Cards are produced in a wide range of media, including but not only pencil, ink, marker, watercolor, acrylic paint, pastels, collage, papercuts, found objects, metals, cloth, and many other embellishments. ATC cards are generally traded or exchanged rather than sold. The movement is said to have started in Europe around 1996, spurred by the mail art movement.

The two you see above are selections from my Christmas series. They both include dyes, watercolor, ink, collage. The brush lettering is done with gold Schmincke waterecolor. The word GREAT is written with a sparkle gel pen.