This month's Artistic Trade Card (ATC) theme
for our exchange was "Bell Peppers".
For my 10 ATCs, I made the following design. I hand drew a bell pepper with a pencil and then used watercolor pencils and water to color them in.
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
I also made this version, but decided I liked the above one instead. For this one, I glued the definition of a bell pepper to the background first and then drew my pepper over that and then painted.
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
And here is what all the other VERY TALENTED ladies made...
Meet Mrs. Bell Pepper and the Kids...
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| Original artwork (part 1) by Steph Daley |
And when you turn her belly around...too cute!
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| Original artwork (part 2) by Steph Daley |
So freakin' CREATIVE!...
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| Original artwork by Diane Niles |
Love the light and shadowing on this one...
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| Original artwork by Arlene Christopher |
Beautifully rich...
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| Original artwork by Bonnie Tincup |
Very creative collage...
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| Original artwork by Maura Simas |
In this one, Helene actually used the REAL pepper to stamp the images and the seeds on her project...
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| Original artwork by Helene Laverdiere |
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| Original artwork by Joyce Thatcher |
And here they all are together tucked away nicely in my ATC notebook to take home. I LOVE these!!! Who knew such a simple theme could come out so great!
And here are some more bell pepper themed ATCs that Bonnie brought in to show all of us...
And our background technique for tonight was brought to you by Bonnie. First you randomly scrape modeling paste on your page to create texture and then you paint on and around it with acrylic paint. Then, you can add stenciled ink, doodles and details.
Here is how mine came out...
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| Original background by Anne Corazza |
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| Original artwork by Anne Corazza |
You can not really see the layers and texture in these pictures, but it is pretty cool in person.
Next month's theme is "hearts". Hmmmm? What to do...
