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