Last of the ATC's & student work

These are the last photos of the Artist trading cards that I made to swap with my students. I won't go into detail again about how I made them, but if you want to know just post a comment!



I made little envelopes for all the cards out of photos from old National Geographic images and sealed them all with copper sealing wax and impressed my initials into it with a metal embossing medallion that I got while I was in Sienna, Italy and have been dying to use! The envelopes will protect the dimensional elements.

These are the cards made by one of my students, Sue McIntyre. You will have to click on the image to see it larger. Truly beautiful.
We are talking about doing another round of these for the end of the course in May -will have to wait to see how many takers we have.
Enjoy!

Still more ATC's

Today was our swap and I must say that I was most impressed with the ATC's my students made. Here are a few more of mine:
Card #1 ("Grow Your Own Dope") has an 'acrylic inks on yupo' background, a stone with a face painted on it, and a collaged shirt and text. I was glad that the one man in the class didn't pull this one!
Card #2 ('Icarus) has a cut out B&W drawing of Icarus and I painted the sun behind him with acrylics
Card #3 ('Polly's Dream') has a background that I stamped text onto, then did an image transfer of a suit of armour, collaged figure and metal angel, hand calligraphy word
Card #4 ('For Barach') has an 'acrylic inks on yupo' background, and a collaged sketch of Uncle Sam on top -suitable for inauguration day!
Enjoy!

More ATC's

This is my second group of 4 ATC's for my class swap tomorrow.
Card #1 has a monoprint background in which I found an image of a bird and brought out with pencil crayon, rubber stamps of paw prints and a cat, collaged bird image and metal fish skeleton charm attached around the cat's neck. Card edged in copper acrylic.
Card #2 is multi layered collage with dragonflies punched out of monoprinted paper and then edged with copper acrylic
Card #3 has a monoprint background, painted, collaged and charm hearts, and letters out of little scrabble tiles. Metallic fibres attach the charms to the card
Card #4 has a monoprint background, rubber stamped and then embellished dragonfly, punched dragonfly backed with copper (so it is dimensional), and then an applique of another punched dragonfly. Calligraphy letters.

I made little envelopes for all the cards out of photos from old National Geographic images and sealed them all with copper sealing wax and impressed my initials into it with a metal embossing medallion that I got while I was in Sienna, Italy and have been dying to use! The envelopes will protect the dimensional elements.
Enjoy!

Artist Trading Cards Project

This is the mess my studio is in currently! I decided that my mixed media class should do an artist trading card swap for Christmas, however, everyone was way too busy to participate with the holidays looming. So we decided to move the swap to our first day back in class, which is Monday. I have been working all week on these little gems, and am having a lot of fun. At first I have to admit that my own personal attitude wasn't that great -I wanted the class to experience this, but I am realizing more and more that I am learning a lot myself while I am exploring. Taking each card and watching the theme for each one developing, and then the hunt for the 'perfect' embellishment! I only have to make 16, but currently have lots more than that -I will choose my favorite 16 to share with the class.

These are a few of my favorites so far. I have been enjoying using metal embellishments, brads, cutouts, rubber stamps, homemade stamps and found images (handy that we have just decided to part company with 5 years of old National Geographics, which I have been going through to pull out any interesting things to add to my collage stash). I also enjoy finding imagery in abstract painting starts and then developing them (see card #3 "Mother" which is part of an abstract start using acrylic inks on Yupo -it also has a punched gold bird backed with blue collage paper and a collaged word). Card #1 ("Father") has a monoprinted background, found images of man and a fish, and copper sheeting which I embossed and attached with brads, and bits of leftover copper I wound into spirals and glued on. Card #2 ("Artist") has a monoprinted background, an image transfer of me as a child, rubber stamped leaf design and collaged text. Card #4 ("Stone Angel") has a monoprinted background, found image of an angel and a silver metal ornament attached with a brad.
Enjoy!