Artist Trading Cards

These are some artist trading cards for a private trade. I did a quick bird drawing and colored in with watercolors called Raven. I may add a bit of black to the birds eyes because there seems to be too much blue going on.
The Dolly and her birdie is done in color pencils. I really like how the color in her face turned out. It makes her look primitive, rustic like :)

More artist trading cards-Queen Swap

These are some of my latest artist trading cards for a Queen Swap. I am hosting a Queen themed swap on Monday Artday ATC a Ning group.
Monday ArtDay ATC is really a great site. Most are illustrators. All the members are very artistic.
These are the three Queen ATCs I have made for the swap. These are done in acrylics.
Left to right:
Make Believe Queen, New Queen, and Queen Mother

Flower Paper Book continued

These are the next five pages of the Flower Paper Book. There are ten pages in all.

6th page: The Earth Laughs in Flowers-Ralph Waldo Emerson

7th page: Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun-Kahlil Gibran

8th page: Where flowers bloom so does hope.-Lady Bird Johnson

9th page: I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.-Claude Monet

10th page: The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.-Chinese Proverb

Flower Paper Book

These are the first five pages of the Flower Paper Book I made for a swap. Each page is 4"x6", both sides had to be arted up in some way. We are to make a book using at least one flower on each page, anything else we put on the page is up to us. We are assigned a partner to send it to. My partner is from South Africa. I hope she likes it.

First I stamped each page with a foam stamp using gesso, it acts as a resist. Then I painted over it with a wash of acrylic paints and wiped some off with a paper towel. I got this technique from Street Team. Great site by the way.

Then I used handwriting rubber stamps with black ink and randomly stamped the images on each page. I made transparencies out of copies of photos for each page, and added a flower. Going with the flower theme, I also put a quote about flowers on each page.

Lastly, I added white details using a white sharpie marker. It had to be binded in some way, I used my coil binder.

The quotes are:

1st page: Flowers open the door to all of Earth's beauty.

2nd page: Flowers have some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.-Chinese Proverb

3rd page: If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.-Andrew Mason

4th page: Perfumes are the feelings of flowers-Heinrich Heine

5h page: Flowers are love's truest language-Park Benjamin

Some of my newest stuff

I made some ATCs...I call them Cloth Dolls. They were fun to do :)

It's So Pink! Swap

These are for a swap on the artisttradingcards yahoo group. The theme is pink. I used 4 different shades of pink in the background, border, flower, and fiber. I hope they work out for the swap :)
I do enjoy the color pink. I have to say I have always had a harder time incorporating images, paper and other embellishments to make ATCs. I just need to keep at it :)

Tea Time ATC

This ATC I made using rubber stamp images that I created. A good friend of mine was kind and giving enough to offer to make some stamps with images I drew. She is so sweet! I am so appreciative of her kindness!! :)
I drew the tea bag and coffee cup, and this is the first time I used them on an ATC. I did add color to the images using color pencils.
Thank you L.G.!!