More ATCs...

I've been making so many of these lately, I figure I'll just post a kind of "best of" to give the gist of the swaps I've been working in... To the left here is a card I've made for a "Sacred Heart" swap.. The Sared heart is usually portrayed with Flames, wings, thorns and a crown. It is a Christian religious symbol that has been adapted by a lot of bikers and tattoo artists I've found O_o

Below is a card I've made for a Surrealism swap, he's got a lightbulb in his mouth so he can read at night haha..
And below....this is Sigfred...I'm not really sure what he is...He's for the "Colorful Wonderful Swap" And he is at least pretty dang colorful...






And last but not least is a card I've made for the Colorful Southwest Swap I'm hosting at www.ATCsForAll.com All of these cards (except the Sacred Heart card withch is acrylic and ink)) were made with markers and ink.

Whimsy workshop going well!

I thought I would share a current work in progress. I have found lately that music hasn't been my usual successful source for creative inspiration that is usually is. So I have been forced to seek inspiration from somewhere else (because I seriously have to look for it, it won't come to me!)

I decided to use the English language and think of words that inspire beautiful images. One great website I was told about is The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language



But in the end I found that "snow" and "Poppy" evoked some creative feeling and went with them. And so I've ended up with what you see here. I plan on keeping parts white, and adding blue and peach skin tones/shading. Then making the poppy a orange red...or maybe a pink red, I haven't decided!



On another note, the Whimsy workshop has been going great! We've had awesome feedback from folks and we had a lot more signups than originally planed for! And now everyone is signing up for the Whimsy II workshop! Both workshops are available online, there are really no specific 'class' dates. So anyone can take it and fit it in with their schedule. The vids and workbooks are always avalible :) Click here or on the banner for more inforamtion.

Happy Valentines Day!!!

A little bit 'o LOVE coming at 'cha :D

Geisha Zetti

Made for PotbellyArts (see link at right) in a 4x4 Mixed media swap at www.illustratedatcs.com  

Valentines Day comes early...

Red was the focus of this tip-in page.  I painted cardstock with red acrylic paint, and used punchenello and red chalk ink to create the circle pattern.  Then I took dark green chalk ink to darken the edges.  I drew the figure with prismacolor colored pencils, cut the heart out of scrapbook paper (red with distressed sheet music), darkened the edges with the green chalk ink and made 'stitches' with a white gel pen.  I painted the text with orange red acrylic liquitex (yes, this is a sin against Golden..I'll say a few Hail Mary's..).  I outlined the lettering with silver gel pen.  last touch was adding a little white highlight to the figure's eye with the white pen.

Collage 4x4's

These ladies were made for a Purple, Teal and Cream themed 4x4 swap.  After the varnish dries, Eyelets and Fibers will be added.  I used layered paper to create the backgrounds, but you can't tell very well...obviously I need to experiment more...

Altered CD in Progress...

This little lady is in progress:

She is a French Geisha Fairy (O_o)  Altered CD...Still not sure where to go with her, but it's great fun.  My eyelet puncher actually worked on a hard plastic CD!  I used acrylic paint (gold and pink) to created the background, then used an image from Sassyarts on Flickr to paint-over and added wings and...not sure what else to do!