Artist Trading Cards

I've made quite a few ATCs this week.

First up is one of four I made for a swap with the theme "Autumn Moon".  This can be interpreted as harvest moon or as the Autumn Moon Festival, celebrated in China (that I confess I didn't know about).  I chose the latter:

I started with a background of acrylic on bristol board paper, purple and blue swiped with an old plastic card.  I painted a dictionary page with an orange/red mixture of acrylic and hand cut my moons.  I didn't want them to be punch-perfect.  After I glued the moon down I stamped the lantern and Asian characters with black ink.  I painted another book page with green/gold acrylic and stamped the lantern again, this time cutting out only the main part of the lantern.  I lined it up and glued it down on top of the other.  White gel pen accents were added at the end.

I sent them out in decorated envelopes:

For the envelopes, I started with a smudge of white gesso, painted on a moon free-hand, and then stamped over with this lovely bamboo stamp.  Easy peasy.

The prototype Autumn Moon ATC was made with Derwent Inktense Blocks.  No layering, just stamping and colour.

I rejected it because it was too simple and I wanted more vibrant colours but now I'm looking at and thinking I might actually like it better than the ones I ended up making.  Do you have a preference?

I made these last night for an upcoming jack-o-lantern swap.  Painted with acrylics and the black background is black gesso.  White gel pen.

I have also made a few ATCs based on a new series of prompts from Daisy Yellow called the Color Fun Challenge - I did three this week.  The first was the lemon doodle on my previous post.  I chose two more prompt combinations - the first was Citron and Forest:

The second combination was Vermillion and Mysterious:

Comments

[Bleubeard and ELizabeth]

Although I like both Moons, I actually prefer the prototype best. And I am over the moon (oops, that's for another challenge) for those pumpkins.