Sumi & watercolor collage (image 8x10)

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Card houses

The acrylic sealer is still tacky and these card houses will circulate the air on both sides of all the cards until they are dry enough for trading or at least for storing as a pack. We used to make card houses of many stories when we were kids. We got really good at it and it was difficult with the popular kem cards which were plastized for ease of shuffling. These painted cards here were easy to balance with their sticky edges.

Last and final Artist Trading Card (both sides).

2 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches, watercolor and sumi ink on 4-ply mat board with acrylic sealer.

Completed Artist Trading Cards

Each trading card is double-sided with a different painting on each side.

Time to move onto something else now, like painting for the Gallery.

Today's effort

Enso painted on silk (Artist Trading Cards series)

Poppy gift from a neighbor friend - best year ever. A possible motif for an ATC series.

Sumi trading cards

The Enso. The circle of life. Neverending. Hope springs eternal.

The club suit shows through - Shamrock & bamboo - Irish meets Japanese...think about it...

Feathers. Flight. Freedom.

Forget-me-nots.

ATC flower series

I decided to leave the playing card faces showing through on two of these series as an experiment to add more interest, though I will not allow the cards to show through again on the next series - it appears to be more of a distraction than an interest. Good to experiment...