Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!

ATCS FOR ALL Site & Photography Festival Feb 1-28 2010

Went tonight to a First Thursday Gallery opening at one of my favourite Calgary little eclectic book arts loving Galleries where I made my first ever IN-PERSON-and-IN -THE-FLESH ATC exchange!

I traded with photographer Roberta Murray, who is also known as  uncommondepth  on the ATCS  for All website....I received a print of her fine limited edition  digitally enhanced Alberta parkland photo "Daybreakers" in exchange for my own ( Artist proof)  copy of "Eternity"..

Interesting to talk to an established Artist who  agrees that there is still prevalent a lack of acceptance for the validity and merit of creative photographic art enhanced digitally on behalf of still quite a few out there... 

I"m also in a mail art trade with another member of the site who does lovely digital art from Finland, trading a post-card size copy of my digitally archived but never printed or traded  "The Ghost in the Machine "

We're both quite interested in seeing how long mail takes from there to Canada -and vice -versa!

ATC's for ALL is a PRIMO site for all kinds of trades and swaps ever-changing and fast moving....

One can configure their own Gallery and thus display any cards they want to trade one-on-one; or join one of the active swaps ", there's also forums for swapping art other than ATCS...such as inchies, chunkies, bookmarks or the aforementioned Mail Art...

Have joined:

-a digital "round robin" 

-a 3-for-3 swap on TREES ( any medium )

-a 3-for3 on the theme "Air" ( any medium )

-and a 3-for-3 creating your own hand-drawn and coloured CHIMERA

For anyone at all interested in Art exchanges I most definitely say ...

CHECK IT OUT!

Eternity

Title:     Eternity

Swap:   Digital Art Quirks Group                             Theme:   Time

Challenge:     The Three Muses Quotation Challenge                                      

Layers:     9                                                                          

Source Imagery:     PD Images of a turn-of-the-Century "Alice by the rabbit hole "-possibly Alice Liddell,  Carroll's model for his fictional heroine;  Einstein's "clock" theoretical mock-up. and back-ground textures from the FLKR Free Textures Group,  sky and birds and waves photos in the Public Domain; Corinthian capital from Art History textbook page.

QUOTE:

Eternity is not something that begins

            After you are dead...

                        It is going on all the time....

                                                       - Charlotte Perkins Gillman

Traded with members of DAQ for their January swap.....a gold gel pen was used on the cards traded to highlight 1/2 the spokes of the wheel and the word Eternity.

Gillman's quote has a singular perspective on time that holds particular meaning for me at this point in my own personal scale of time. 

Printmaking Event This Week-end!

                     Hybrid Print/sculpture by Eveline Kolijn / on view at UAS

Intergraphia -  A Winter Printmaking Event runs Thursday night through Saturday Day this week-end in Calgary this week-end at various gallery venues such as non-profit, commercial, artist-run co-ops.  The above work, at Contexture: New Directions and Intersections in Printmaking at The Untitled Art Society Gallery on display until February 5th - is by Eveline Kolijn,  an artist I have studied etching with, who is a printmaker and Instructor at ACAD- the Alberta College of Art. 

See you there!

Merry Christmas !

Merry  Christmas Everyone!

This is a Pen and Ink card I created for a 2009 Card Exchange in the Pen & Ink Forum on the WET CANVAS Artist site. It is based on some old Public Domain Illustrations from various children's books. The Reindeer is from a last Century Alphabet book, and the goose was originally a white one...decided to make it a WILD Canada goose for the card... wobbly snow-covered fir trees and back-ground my own....the work is a combination of 2 sizes of Micron pens and a Wolff's carbon graphite pencil for shading. 

The exchange is made up of 20 people from Australia to Canada and points across the Atlantic and Pacific and in- between. You keep your original penwork, then scan  it, print up an edition and send it to the others in the exchange.have recieved about a dozen great and varied , individually designed cards thus far...nice way to ring in the New Year!

Again....

Season's Greetings One and All!

The Ghost in the Machine

Title:     The Ghost in the Machine

Challenge:   Using textures and Layers for the Digital Art Quirks Studio Challenge Forum

See Comments at :   Studio Challenge Art  : Gallery

Layers:  24-30  incorporating 2 other prior digital works- including one of a combine-harvester-

new (FLKR group)  free textures and an old 17th C Italian Engraving recently found on the Web

Christmas Past

Title:    Christmas Past

Entry:   Art on the Darkside Challenge

Layers: 12 plus words

Sources:

Public Domain Images of Quebec from The Library of Congress/ Back-ground from FLICKR Free Textures group/Website freebies from online vintage art sites...including an old ad of a particularly spooky and snowflake surrounded Pere Noel/Father Christmas!!

AIM:

My hope is that the back-ground and surround is convincingly cold and Winter-y in feel ; reminiscent of a block of carved dark-cored ice...