AWT4: Artists Trading Cards Assignment

Drawing from the ideas and inspiration that Amanda Brittin gave us, create a minimum of 6 trading cards, using at least 3 different styles. Include your contact info on the back. Scan or photograph your work, so that you have a record after they get traded away in out trading event.

Basics

• The only restriction is that the cards are 2.5 x 3.5 inches
• Use any media that we have at hand – the examples above are just a small sample, including painted, soap (!), macrame, lino cut, and found items. Most mix several media
• The cards must be tradable – you have to be prepared to let go of them, and they must be appealing enough that others want to trade for them

What Does “At Least 3 Styles” Mean?

• Use a variety of media e.g. ink, paint, melted crayon, collage from magazines and newspapers, layers of construction paper, computer printouts of anything you produce in Photoshop (e.g. a collage), glued hair, string, weaving, embroidery, garbage, dried plants
• Mix media – add collaged text to an abstract creation or a hand tinted photograph. Try to go beyond the ordinary for at least some of your cards
• If you want to do a series (e.g. of altered photos), do 4 or more, but you still need to do 2 other styles