ATC Guilty Pleasure

The theme from this ATC swap was 'guilty pleasure. I made a series of 6. First I made one large background with multiple layers on Aquarel paper. These layers were made with oil pastels and several colours acrylics. I cut in in ATC- sized pieces and pasted the picture of the Haagen Dasz on each of the cards. I created shadow with Caran D'Ache water soluble oil crayons and used a stamp (the purple one) and a doily to create the golden texture. I topped it off with a layer of glossy gel medium for protection

ATC Nursery Rhyme

An 'ATC' for the swap 'Nursery Rhymes'. It is going to be a booklet, that's why it's square. This is the one I kept (the first one). On the other ones I wrote more text. I like those even better. I started with a black and white drawing from Fiep Westendorp. It took a lot of work to color it (with my Derwent Inktense pencils). Then I glued them on the background (painted blue with acrylics) with gel medium.

This is the first time I 'distressed' a card. I sanded it and wanted to use a distress ink pad, but couldn't find it in the stores. So I experimented with ecoline (watery paint) and a make up sponge. It worked. And I sanded it again and added some golden details with a stamp and with a paintbrush. As a final layer I covered the whole card with matte gel medium.

I made a series of 10. I am used to making just one, but with the ATC swaps I make series and I find I learn a lot from them

I like how they turned out. The only thing is that the rhyme of Jip and Janneke kept playing in my head over and over again as I was working on the cards :-)

ATC Greek Goddes Aphrodite

The last ATC I made these last few days. This one is part of the theme 'Greek Gods and Goddesses' . I joined this swap via a Yahoo Group. One of the restrictions was: no nudity. That was not so easy if the theme is Aphrodite.

This is one of a series of five cards. First I made a collage and printed this. (much smaller than I made it), on top of that is acylic paint. In the collage you will find many hidden pictures. Some you can still see and some you can't...

ATC Bring on the showgirls

This card is part of a series of 5. Theme: Bring on the showgirls (here's the swap).

The basis is a collage of different magazine pictures with acrylic painton it. On top of this a picture of a lovely, colorfull showgirl. The feathers/skirt of the girl is made of parts of other colourfull pictures. On top of it I drew some golden lines with decorfin relief paint.

This one's also 2,3"x 3,5"

ATC - A splash of purple

This is one from a series of 7 cards. The picture is a bit more blue-ish than the 'real'cards. The theme was: A splash of purple.

The basis are a few layers of acrylic paint, wax color as a resist under the paint, a part of a picture I took from a mural in Amsterdamle golden dot's are also acrylic paint. The white drawing on top is with a water resist fineliner. Next time I will try a white gel pen, because the other fineliner didn't work very long on paint. It quit.

It's a real challenge to work so smalle (2,5" x 3,5" or 6,4 cm x 8,9 cm). Normally I work much larger.

ATC - A case of the blues

From now on I will post in English, since I am joining international Art Swaps.

This is my first Art Trader Card. I made it for a Swap called 'A case of the blues'. I made a series of 5. I kept one.

The basis of this card is artist paper I made for an earlier art-work. It has a lot of layers, all of them aclylic paint. On top of this a picture of a lady, some more paint and Iktense watercolor penils from Derwent (I love those bright colours!).

creatie vanuit frustratie

Gisteren realiseerde ik me dat ik al veel te lang niet meer lekker met kleurtjes heb gespeeld en gecreeerd. Dat schreef ik even lekker van me af. Toen ik dat nog ns goed bekeek op n afstandje bleek t toch weer een soort kunstwerk te hebben opgeleverd :-)

Werd er nog blijer van toen ik tussen alle lijnen een hartje ontdekte