{"id":72,"date":"2012-06-04T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:28:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:28:26","slug":"artist-trading-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/artist-trading-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Trading Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in my Nervousness days (anyone remember Nervousness?), I made a lot of ATCs and mail art. They\u2019re probably out there buried in a bunch of ATC or mail art collections (my username was wundergirl back then if anyone has one). Now that I have a studio, time and artistic energy again, I\u2019ve been making them again. Nervousness is gone now, but in it\u2019s place several new<\/a> sites<\/a> for trading and contributing to mail art have sprung up. Lil\u2019 Miss loves making ATCs also, so we spend a good deal of our art time working on them.<\/p>\n

\"making<\/a>
\nLil\u2019 Miss and a friend making ATCs at a recent event.<\/p>\n

What are ATCs?<\/b>
\nArtist Trading Cards (ATCs) as we know them today were popularized by Swiss artist M. V\u00e4nci Stirnemann in 1997. Inspired by hockey trading cards, he put together an exhibit of more than 1000 trading cards. At the end of the exhibit, he encouraged viewers to create their own ATCs to trade for one of his.<\/p>\n

\nSince then, the popularity of ATCs has grown and grown. Artists trade via websites on the internet or at face to face trading events.<\/p>\n

\nThere are only two rules for making ATCs:
\n1. They must be 2.5 x 3.5 inches.
\n2. They must be traded, never bought or sold. (There is a version of ATCs that can be sold- they\u2019re called ACEO \u2013 search on etsy for examples)<\/p>\n

\"making<\/a>
\nLil\u2019 Miss and her friend are trading at an event. <\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s easy to understand the popularity of ATCs. They are small and quick to make. This also makes them quite addicting. They are a really easy way to try out new techniques and since they\u2019re traded, never sold, they provide a very easy way to attain some really beautiful art.<\/p>\n

\"making<\/a>
\nA couple of LIl\u2019 Miss\u2019s ATCs \u2013 These are collages, we made the papers that she collaged with and the background is from a recycled watercolor picture that I cut up.<\/p>\n

ATCs and Kids<\/b>
\nATCs are really kid friendly because of the small size. A very small surface can be a lot less intimidating than a large piece of paper. I find for Lil\u2019 Miss, especially, that painting and collage are a lot easier on the small ATC blanks. <\/p>\n

\"making<\/a>
\nSome drawn ATCs by Lil\u2019 Miss<\/p>\n

\nMost art mediums will translate to the miniature size of ATCs. Oil pastels, watercolors, and sticker collage are Lil\u2019 Miss\u2019s favorites. She\u2019s just beginning to work with paper collage. Her sticker collages are generally a collection of stickers that she likes and then comes up with a theme for\u2026 like \u201cthings that are pretty\u201d or \u201cthings you musn\u2019t do\u201d.<\/p>\n

\nI\u2019ll probably post some ideas for getting kids started with ATCs in the future. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"making<\/a>
\nNo surprise that I like block cuts for mine. The one on the left is made of a couple blocks on a collaged background. The one on the right is a gradient block print. I got the idea for that saying (Kiss and Make Art) from LinoCutBoy<\/a>. I\u2019ve also been doing a lot of water colors on cards too. I never really got watercolors before, but I\u2019m really enjoying them right now.<\/p>\n

\nHere\u2019s my ATC photo album on Flickr<\/a>. I don\u2019t have a ton of them up there, but you can get an idea of what I\u2019ve been water coloring and creating.<\/p>\n

\nSo, have you heard of ATCs before? Have you tried them out? Feel free to link to some in the comments!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in my Nervousness days (anyone remember Nervousness?), I made a lot of ATCs and mail art. They\u2019re probably out there buried in a bunch of ATC or mail art collections (my username was wundergirl back then if anyone has one). Now that I have a studio, time and artistic energy again, I\u2019ve been making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,5],"tags":[52,813,57,356,554],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity-with-kids","category-uncategorized","tag-art-with-kids-2","tag-artist-trading-cards","tag-atcs","tag-creative-art","tag-creativekids","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}