More Fetish Artist Trading Cards

ATCs of Badger and Bison, Phillip Hoyle 2017

Last week I went to the ATC workshop ready to trade only to find I had gone one week too early! I chalk it up to old age and too compressed a schedule. You'd think a retired person would do better meeting a schedule. I say that because I don't have nearly the schedule I sustained for many years. Still I write, do my artwork, and socialize. I attend both writing and art workshops and classes. Life is full. I like it that way. 

Bird ATC, Phillip Hoyle 2017

I like animals in general although I am less excited these days by squirrels that are making it necessary for me to keep cleaning off the patio as they harvest sweet locust pods. They're as messy as my grandkids, dropping all the leftovers on the patio. I'd put out a trash bin but it wouldn't solve a thing. They don't look where they drop and sometimes they drop them right on me as I sweep. See, life in retirement still has its challenges. Hope you have an art filled week and meet some interesting people.

Fetish Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards, Buffalo and Bear, Phillip Hoyle 2017

I'm getting ready for an ATC swap and workshop coming up next week. The theme ought to provide some beauties and, perhaps, some laughs. That will be up to the imaginations of the artists. There is a lot of imagination in the groups I trade with. 

I've long admired the cultures and artwork of Native Americans. I get to look at the work, both traditional and modern, of such artists at the Denver Art Museum, the first American art museum to show these works as art. My work with such designs is a mark of my appreciation. 

Rabbit Fetish, Phillip Hoyle 2017

All three of these ATCs are inspired by fetishes by Native Americans. They are done here on water color paper grounds, collage, handmade papers, ink, feathers, and rafia.

Tobacco Artist Trading Cards

Tobacco Juice Artist Trading Cards, Phillip Hoyle 2017

The swap meet at CORE New Art Space on Saturday was especially fine. One artist who we used to see often returned, a new artist came with a handful of cards, and another artist stopped by to look over just what happens. The overall work seemed especially creative. I took some rather silly looking grasshoppers having recalled that when as boys we’d catch them, they’d leave a brown stain on our hands that we called tobacco juice. That’s what I named my cards.

Tobacco Juice ATCs by Phillip Hoyle 2017

They went quickly and were replaced by beauties from other artists. It’s a social with art not refreshments, but to an artist what could be finer? These tiny pieces of art inspire new pieces, techniques, and endless cards to trade. The trade takes place on the second Saturday of the month. Come with 3.5 x 2.5” cards. Check out the website on Facebook. 

Tobacco Juice ATCs by Phillip Hoyle 2017
Grounds for these cards were old acrylic washes and collages.
Drawings in graphite, black ink, and gell pens.