Artist Trading Cards

In my art exchange group, I have learned so much, but one of my favorite things has been making ATCs, artist trading cards. They are wonderful little 2.5 by 3.5 inch pieces of art! I really love receiving them, and I feel a little inadequate because everyone makes them with lots of collaging and embellishments which makes them so fun and special, but I mostly just draw or paint. It is really amazing how many I have made and traded since I started, I have some on my wall on a little twine, they are held by tiny clothes pins, I interchange them all the time to keep it interesting and have different inspirations. I will show you a few of the ones I have made.

I just made these today for a "villain" themed swap! I found the inspiration for them on pinterest. I did these with Uni-posca paint pens and black and white pen.

These were for a swap that's theme was "no theme" ..I liked how they all turned out individually, I liked that they all had the tiniest bit of similarity with the background. I hope the girls I sent them to will enjoy them. I made these with distress stain and pen, the girl also has some colored pencil. 

This was for a theme called "favorite artist" I used Tom Thomson's Northern Lights as my inspiration for this, it was my partner's favorite artist. I did this with watercolor and pen.

I love poppies, this was just me learning how to use my new art supplies, I got some distress paint and stain on clearance, I also used pen

These were made for a theme "watercolor flowers" ..so I made them with watercolor only. It was sooo hard for me to not do any pen on them but I stuck to it! 

Whoever is reading this, if you haven't made an ATC before you should try! It's fun! :D