As I said in a recent post, I’m interesting in doing ATCs but have yet to do one or trade any.  I need to learn more.  I just said to a friend of mine in chat,  that I see that a lot of ATCs are like collages (that do not incorporate any original drawings or paintings), and I think they are VERY beautiful, and it IS art.  But I thought the main point was to trade your sketches / drawings / paintings on these cards.  I am actually having trouble finding ATCs online that consist mainly of, or even incorporate original sketches/paintings.  Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place.  While looking at ATCs on flickr, the photo site, I see mostly collages.  But then when I look at ACEOs on eBay, they seem to be mostly paintings.  I guess I have a lot to learn, because I’m not sure what is acceptable.  I’d hate to send out an ATC to someone with a drawing I worked hard on only to have them be disappointed because it’s “just a drawing”.  I’m not sure how this all works.  I’ve been looking at many ATC websites and magazine articles and such.  There are so many styles and some of them are so beautiful it’s hard to believe that the artist could fit so much beauty on one little card. 

Here is another one of my childhood stuffed animal sketches that I did recently.  (One time during our life, my mother and I lost everything we owned- everything; clothes, books, diaries, china, family photos, yearbooks, stuffed animals, everything.  It might as well have been a house fire, it was all just GONE.  So I am often nostalgic for my earliest childhood toys.)

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You know, I could swear posts have gone missing from this blog. I can just picture the post in my head and even the comments, but it’s like some posts just went “POOF!” and disappeared! I don’t get it. Maybe I’m imagining things.

I thought I had, a while ago, blogged about how I got this book and really liked it:

Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap
by Bernie Berlin
I am really interested in ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) and would like to learn more about them and try making some. It looks like something I’d really enjoy. By the way, this book is really cool. Here are some links that I have bookmarked to check out re. ATCs-

http://www.art-cards.org/about.html

Yahoo Groups re. ATCs : http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=atc

One night on my way to bed, I got an urge to draw some of my childhood stuffed animals.  One time during our life, my mother and I lost everything we owned- everything; clothes, books, diaries, china, family photos, yearbooks, stuffed animals, everything.  It might as well have been a house fire, it was all just GONE.  So I am often nostalgic for my earliest childhood toys.  Here is one of the ones I drew that night:

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(Hi EDM Superblog readers! Please visit my art blog ILuvArt.net I am adding many new sketches today and I am always looking forward to meeting other people who like to draw.)  I am really happy w/ this sketch.  It is based on a photo I saw in Craft Magazine of a Blythe Doll, but I added my own twist to it.  In the photo, the coat has little deer on it and she is holding the leash for a stuffed deer.  But in my drawing, I made the deer into PUGS!   If I had the patience to sew (which I don’t) and better skill at crafting, I would get Blythe doll and make a custom Pug outfit and dog for it.  But I don’t have the skill or patience.  However, if somebody were to do a Blythe doll set like this, I’d buy it in a heartbeat! Drawin in pencil in my moleskine:

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