Mixed Bag of Artist Trading Cards

ATCs made at last week's workshop. Phillip Hoyle, 2017

At the last ATC workshop at Jerry Simpson's studio we traded cards of either Smiles or Chicken and Egg (like which one came first). I took a bunch of them but they all traded and I had been making them late in the day! I'll make some more for another post.

In this workshop we first trade cards made to a theme (or not) and then work for a couple of hours to prepare cards for trade with all participants present. I found a couple of maps in one magazine and several illustrations from old (really old) issues of Popular Mechanics. Collages were my focus but I also drew and painted into them. 

I never tire of this kind of work and of the socializing with other visual artists. So much fun, stimulation, and warmth. 

A couple of the ATCs in closeup. Phillip Hoyle, 2017

Airy Artist Trading Cards

"Wind" ATCs. Top panes acrylic, lower pane empty with
curtain of paper. Ground relief print of window frame in
acrylic. Phillip Hoyle, June 2017

The topic for Saturday's trade at CORE New Art Space was "Air." One artist said he'd just bring clear acyrlic cards since one cannot see air. That comment may have been the origin of my idea to have windows, the bottom open to let in the air. I meant to call them "Fresh Air," but when I looked at what I had written they were titled "Wind." Another ATC maker often has movable parts. On these cards one can blow air through the open pane and make the curtains flap in the breeze.

Yes it's a bit corny but they did trade, and as usual, they were fun to make. 

"Wind" ATCs by Phillip Hoyle, June 2017