Art Trading Cards, or ATCs

Art Trading Cards are miniature works of art (2.5" x 3.5") that fit inside standard card sleeves. This type of art was started in Switzerland in 1996 and grew out of an interest in mail art. ATCs are now produced all over the world in various media, including pencils, pens, markers, watercolor, acrylic paints, collage, papercuts, found objects, and more.
1. Draw sea life shapes in pencil on the cards, keeping them as large and simple as possible.
2. When complete, trace them with a black permanent marker.
3. I used my favorite Prismacolor® watercolor pencils to color and paint the cards. The pencils allowed me to easily fill small shapes like the seaweed.
4. After the cards were dry, I used ultra fine point permanent markers in matching colors to add waves to the background, and details to the fish.

Ode to Georgia O’Keeffe Poppy Mural

The artistic brilliance of Georgia O'Keeffe revolutionized modern art. With her paintings she vividly portrayed the power and emotion of objects of nature. One of her most famous paintings, Oriental Poppies is full of brilliant color and measures 30 inches tall and over 40 inches wide.

My Poppy Mural has 28 pages to color and measures 54" by 40" when complete.You can purchase my pdf file with instructions for just $5. Click the “Add to Cart” button below to make your payment and receive download instructions.

Friendship Bracelet Book Winners

It’s time to announce the two lucky winners of the Klutz Friendship book giveaway.
Thank you readers for all your really kind comments about my blog. I wish I could give a book to all 113 of you, but alas there can only be two winners. The winning screen names I randomly selected are: “Gerky” and “sew happy Stacy”. Congratulations ladies, you win 2 books each – one to keep and one to give away. Please email me your addresses so the books can be sent on their way. Thanks again to Klutz Publications for this great giveaway!