Halloween ATC's From the Darkside

These are the other ATC's I made for another one of this month's "from the Darkside" swap- "Halloween" of course.

These ATC's started out as regular playing cards, were sanded and then color washed with acrylic paint, then stamped with a Tim Holtz stamp.  The witches are vintage photos I altered in photo shop, siloutted and then adhered.  Then, the final details were added; glitter glue on the top one and glitter marker on the bottom one.

Check back tomorrow for another Halloween report. :)

Masters of the Macabre

These ATC's are for a swap I'm participating in and just sent out:

As you can guess, the theme of the swap was Masters of the Macabre and of course, I chose Poe as the Master of choice.

Mod Podge papers, vintage paper*, ink, Stickles and a journal stamp and Raven sticker* made up these ATC's.  (*on the second card)

In other news, A has recently changed his mind about what he wants to be for Halloween (or forgotten his original choice), and his new choice is a LOT simpler, so that has freed me up to work a little bit on my Folk Art witch.  Tonight, I sculpted the head- something I'd never done before- and so far so good. It has to dry for a few days.  Next, I'll tackle the hands.  Whether I actually finish it before Halloween or not, I'm not sure, but considering I'm not sure where the book is, I'm impressed I've gotten this far.  I may have to make up the clothing patterns, but all this just means my witch will have a more individual personality- great by me!

Art Nouveau Artist Trading Cards

copyright 2012 Narah Kimberly A. Minardi  all rights reserved

copyright 2012 Narah Kimberly A. Minardi  all rights reserved

After working so long on my Art Journaling workshop, I finally signed up for a couple of swaps.  One was for an Art Nouveau ATC swap.  Enchanted Gallery made the stamps I used for the main images and for the swirls on the 2nd ATC.  The floral background on the 1st is from a stamp by Stampfrancisco.  The very first layer (on the illustration board ATC form-which I love- so sturdy!) is a wash of acrylic paint, followed by the stamped background using solvent based Staz-On ink.  Then, I covered the cards with a piece of mesh fabric that Angelo picked out- a wine gift bag he picked up and said, "Mommy, you can use this in your artwork!"  He was right, of course! :)  Next, I adhered the Inktense and water color crayon colored images (color blended with a damp brush), that were accented with glitter marker and dimensional paint. Last came the gold ribbon and gold glittered dimensional paint around the border.

Lest you think I'm somehow not obsessing on Halloween still, today I picked up some polyester stuffing and am one step closer to creating my Folk Art witch.  Also, my dining room mantel is already decorated with Halloween festiveness. 

My belly dance class at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Educational Center starts in 11 days!  We moved the time up so people working downtown wouldn't have to kill so much time between work and class.  

Hopefully, my next post won't be so long in coming.  Hope you didn't suffer too badly while I rested. ;)

Artist Trading Card Workshop at Sterling Yoga!!

I'm very excited about this Friday's Artist Trading Card Workshop at Sterling Yoga!! (Check out the Facebook event for full description and details.) These are a few of the ATC's I've made and thought you may like to see them.  :)  There are a bunch more here on Flickr.

The local coffee shops, a fabric store, The Good Life Market, Khun's Grocery store and my naturopath all have flyers for the workshop up.  Anyone in Pittsburgh know some good places to put up flyers or otherwise let know about art workshops (I have more coming up)?  Specifically the Dormont/Mt. Lebanon area?  

The naturopath's office and fabric store have flyers specifically for those clients- letting people know how healthy art-making is and how you can use up fabric scraps respectively.  I've tried to convey that you do not need to know how to draw or paint to do this form of collage, so that those who haven't realized they are already artists feel welcome. 

Anyone have other advice for promoting local art workshops?  I'd really appreciate the help! :)

Also at Sterling Yoga this weekend (Saturday evening) is a hafla!  I'm performing!!! Come and see us! :)

Studio Location:  2889 Glenmore Ave, Dormont, PA 15216

* From West Liberty to Potomac - 1st Right onto Gleamer

* From Banksville to Potomac -across the"T" tracks - 2nd Left onto Glenmore

Yoga Studio sits immediately back to the Right - across the street from the Dor-Stop Rest. -

there a few parking spots to the Left & in front of the studio.

Email: sterlingyoga@verizon.net 

412.260.0533 

 

Cleo- La Belle Epoque

This is an Artist Trading Card I made using an image of Cleo, a French ballerina famous for her beauty. (I got this image from Art Chix's La Belle Epoque collage sheet.) I looked up some info on Cleo (linked above) and was surprised to find out she was connected with the Impressionists movement. Not surprised that they would ask her to model so often, but because I'm currently listening to an audio book called "Luncheon of the Boating Party" (the famous Renot painting- he was an Impressionist painter.) Hmm... very interesting what we run into at the same time...

The background for this ATC is a phone book page. I sponged on a few different colors of pigment ink with a cosmetic sponge, used a cardboard ginger ale carton as a circle stencil with more pigment ink, glued it to an Art Chix pre-cut water color paper ATC form and tore around the edges to have the background fit to size. No cutting! :)

I glued the image down and added mica sprayed cheese cloth, silver ribbon, rhinestones, a rhinestone brad and a star punched from a tea bag package. After I ran an ink pad around the edges, I was done!