Category Archives: artist trading card

Getting back in the swing of it

I’ve had a kind of a rough year and haven’t had much time or energy to get back into painting or anything creative, really. When life issues strike, I would have thought that I’d want to paint more – but it wasn’t the case. It was more like, the creative things I loved to do […]

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Pages 4/28/12

Here are the test prints colorized with Prismacolor Markers. It’s pretty cool testing out different color palettes. With the stamps, you can print alot, play alot and not worry about screwing something up. It helps push you outside of your color comfort zone. These are alos ATC size, so I can make these tests into […]

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Pages 11/26/11

Here’s the Frida ATC all painted with watercolors. I really like the way this turned out! (She looks a tiny bit angry though. lol)

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Pages 11/25/11

Here are a couple of new ATCs I’ve been working on.  The Santa was inspired after watching the Macy’s Day Parade. Christmas with a twist. The other Frida / Catrina card was inspired by a Mexican folk art compact I bought a few months ago. I’ve never done any other types of skulls besides traditional […]

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‘Strange Little Girl’. This is a digital ATC made with multiple layers in Photoshop. This is for the next Artist Trading Cards Yahoo Group digital ATC swap. I love playing around with digital ATCs. It lets me express another ‘style’ I have. It’s also enjoyable for me to take take the tools I use at […]

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Pages 08/22/08

Three various Journal Cards, finally painted with watercolors.

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Pages 07/15/08

Digital Collage for and Artist Trading Card swap I am in. I created this in Photoshop and it has multiple layers of graphics and text.

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Pages 02/29/08

Three mixed media Artist Trading Cards. I used collage, and acrylic paints as well as colored pencils and embellishments. Images are from ArtChix Studios

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Pages 02/28/08

Since we didn’t have as many signups for the Shipwreck Swap, I had to quickly come up with a bunch more cards so the 5 participants didn’t get the same card. lol. The front has a small plastic mirror and a vintage photo which I manipulated in Photoshop to make it look like it was […]

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Pages 04/29/07

He. Saw her across the crowd.(Colorized version.)

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