Artist Trading Card Collage Abstracts

ATC Abstracts, Phillip Hoyle 2018

I attended an ATC workshop on Thursday in which I made a group of collages from collected paper items. The company was fine, conversations sparkled, artwork seemed especially creative. The first trades were related to the evening's theme, insects. I brought prints of grape leaves with Japanese beetles busily eating holes in the leaves. 

ATC insects, Phillip Hoyle 2018

After that trade I started work on the abstracts using mostly magazine images from a folder of things torn or cut from old magazines. We had to work quickly since we were each aiming at making at least ten new cards in two hours.

Viewing all the completed work of the evening was like entering an art gallery for a diverse show from nine artists ranging in age from teens to eighties.

Phillip Hoyle 2018