| ATCS - A collaborative cultural experience (the original site that started it all) ~ [link] Art in your Pocket: Comprehensive intro to ATCs and a huge range of techniques ~ [link] Artist Trading Cards: Thorough introduction; principles and guidelines for design; some ideas for unusual shapes and interactive cards ~ [link] Resin-coating tutorial ~ [link] Image Transfers: Tape, Gel, Blender Pen and Heat transfer techniques ~ [link] Magazines ArtTRADER Magazine: Web based publication (in PDF format) focused on mail art for trade such as ATCs, ACEOs, art journals, chunky books, altered art and altered art books. Tutorials, articles, lots of inspiration! ~ [link] ATC Quarterly: dedicated entirely to techniques and ideas on ATCs ~ [link] Supplies European Papers is a great online store for ready-cut ATC card in a range of colours, the ATC Wizard template, ATC card sleeves, albums and frames for displaying ATCs, stamps etc. Efficient, helpful service, too. [link] |
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| ABOUT ATC FANATICS This is an informal group account, created as a shop window Gallery for deviants of all persuasions who are interested in making, displaying and possibly exchanging Artist's Trading Cards. If you are new to ATCs there are really only two basic rules: (1) Size is 2½ inches × 3½ inches / 6 × 9 cm(either portrait or landscape orientation) (2) Cards are never sold, but always traded ACEOs are identical in format to ATCs. The name stands for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals", and ACEOs are generally made for sale, rather than for trade. Visit *ACEO-Addict if you're interested. Some guidelines: (1) Cards can be one-off originals, or limited editions (ie you print out a limited number of digital works). (2) On the back of the card is the artist's name, contact details, title of the card, and the date created. If you have printed a limited series, the card should also have the number on it (eg #1 of 5) Otherwise, the sky's the limit - any medium (watercolour, oils, acrylic, crayon, pastels, photography, fabric, metal, polymer clay, plexiglass, collage, lithograph, 3D elements etc etc) and any message. (Although I do reserve the right not to fav and therefore feature unfortunate material.) WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Step 1: Make an ATC (or two or three) Step 2: Post it to your own DeviantArt page. (Put ATC in as a keyword / tag) Step 3: Note me here to let me know you've posted it, and I'll fav it so it appears in the Gallery. Step 4: Visit the Gallery often (You might like to become a formal Watcher so you receive journal entry updates, but because all the deviations are added to the Favorites Gallery, you won't be aware of new ATCs being featured.) Step 5: If you see a card you like posted by another Deviant, you can comment on their site, asking to trade a card with them, and the two of you take it from there to mail each other the agreed-upon exchange. TRADING You don't HAVE to trade if you don't want to. Some cards in this Gallery are not for trade or exchange, but are included for inspiration and eye-candy. Many artists have specific preferences as to what kinds of cards they prefer to trade for, or are particularly interested in collecting. All of us are free to specify these preferences and to turn down a trade if the card being offered in exchange is not what we want - with no hard feelings either side! PROTOCOL AND GOOD MANNERS! If you DO undertake to trade with a fellow deviant, you do need to follow through on your undertaking, and send your card to them as soon as possible. It makes people really miserable if they trade in good faith and receive nothing in return - and it may mean that they withdraw from trading entirely, which deprives all of us of an opportunity to share in their art. |
Creativity Contest
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| The theme for our next contest is Creativity. Not a new concept, and there are lots of deviations on this theme already ~ check out the News article at [link] Most of them have fairly predictable images - lightbulbs, exploding skulls, shattering fountains of colour. What can you do with the concept that's really creative? What does creativity mean to you? Where does it come from? What's it for? What's the dark side to creativity? What's its antithesis? You can go abstract, literal, symbolic, tragic, comedic - it's wide open. SEE THE EXPANSION OF THE CONTEST SCOPE IN THE JOURNAL ENTRY AT [link] Here are some definitions and quotations to provoke you into a creative spurt! (The rules and other boring stuff are all the way at the bottom of this post.) Websters Dictionary Creativity is marked by the ability or power to create, to bring into existence, to invest with a new form, to produce through imaginative skill, to make or bring into existence something new. Carl Rogers "Creativity is the emergence of a novel, relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual." Arthur Koestler "Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." Edwin Land "Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." Erich Fromm "Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self." Saul Steinberg "The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." Rollo May "Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem." Margaret Wheatley "The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity." Dee Hock "The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." Scott Adams "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Jung “But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.” George Prince “Another word for creativity is courage” Ray Bradbury “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.” Julia Cameron “Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.” RULES 1. Submissions must be standard ATC size, but there are no restrictions as to medium. 2. All deviants are welcome to submit. 3. Multiple (and single) submissions welcome. 4. Deviations must be new (ie made for this contest) and posted to dA from 15 October onwards. 5. Contest closes 15 November. EXTENDED TO 30 NOVEMBER 6. Note *ATCfanatics with a link to your entry 7. Prize is a 3 month subscription to dA and an ATC Wizard template from European Papers ([link]), donated by *hogret. The winner will be decided by popular vote. |
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