ATC sleeve done in June 2008

I usually do about 20 to 60 ATC's in a session. Each session is about 2 hours. Many of the ATC's are completed then or they are prepared for another level of application. This means I'm going to draw or paint more into it and this session was only getting it ready for something else. In the set of nine shown, these were experiments where I put drops of paint then squeegeed them down the ATC. Five of them were done using that technique. It was fun. Thanks for looking.

Mask Produced ATC's at 7/19 Workshop

ATC's created at the Workshop

Thanks to all that attended the ATC workshop on 19 July at VAL Gallery. It was very successful with new and young folks attending. The trading was especially good this workshop. Some of the cards I traded are shown here. The next FREE ATC workshop is on Sept. 20th from 12 to 2 pm.

FREE ATC WORKSHOP

Free ATC Workshop
Are you interested in making or trading Art Trading Cards? Join Visual Art League (VAL) members for a two hour workshop to be held at the Visual Art League from 12 to 2 pm on Saturday July 19, 2008. VAL is located off Fox and I-35 in Lewisville, TX in the Lewisville West Shopping Center. The address is 701 S. Stemmons Blvd. #115 Look for the Big Blue ART GALLERY sign. Leave a message at VAL office at 972-420-9393

Art Trading Cards Made by David Mask

This a set of nine ATC's all done in the same session. The ATC in the lower right hand corner is made from sandpaper and so is the one above it. Some of the figurative ATC's are from the Tribal ATC series.

Robot

The robot ATC was made using an inked piece of foam from a meat tray. A drop of red acrylic paint is used for the circle/heart. D. Mask

My first ATC's

Using a sports card, I sanded the entire card except for the head. Then I gessoed the sanded part then painted the image. It was a good beginning. I still look at them in my 3-ring binder.

Action Cards by David Mask

Using a Jackson Pollock paint splattering technique, here are samples of three different ATC sessions. Action painting with ATC's is fun. I usually do about 30 to 50 cards at once by taping them together on a table. It's easier to plan and direct the paint that way. Plus, the product is usually sensational. D. Mask

O Fish

O Fish is an ATC completed using a section of product box. The O was kept and the rest of the box surface was sanded then gessoed. The O was used for the eye of the fish. The rest of the fish was painted covering the gessoed portion of the box section. D. Mask

Core of the issue

This year, I did an ATC project using apple cores given to me by various people. I did about 5o drawings using these apple cores. It got some interesting responses when I did it. Most good. From these drawings I did eight ink drawings on blank ATC cards then I painted around that inked drawing with cardinal red acrylic paint. These eight ATC's were used in a sculpture. The sculpture was submitted in a VAL gallery show and won a prize. David Mask

ATC's by David Mask

I'll submit an original ATC or more every day.

I plan to attend the VAL ATC workshop, too.

Free ATC Workshop

Are you interested in making or trading Art Trading Cards?
Join Visual Art League (VAL) members for a two hour workshop
to be held in Lewisville, TX at the Visual Art League from
12 to 2 pm on Saturday July 19, 2008.

VAL is located off Fox and I-35 in Lewisville, TX
in the Lewisville West Shopping Center.
The address is 701 S. Stemmons Blvd. #115
Look for the Big Blue ART GALLERY sign.

Leave a message at VAL office at 972-420-9393

Texas Art Trading Cards

Howdy and welcome to Texas Art Trading Cards Blog.
Display your original ATC's and art comments on this blog.
Art Trading Cards or ATC's are small works of art.
One rule: The size of the art card needs to be
two and a half inches by three and half inches.
In metric that's 69 mm x 84 mm.
Paper type varies along with mark making material and style.
My paper use varies from recycled paper to store bought acid-free paper.