Quaking Aspen Forest in Early Spring / main imagery from land near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, others from the US and Canadian Forest Services, and in the Public Domain / Digital work of 19 layers
Originally created as one of my cards for the Magical Air Elements swap at ATC's For All
I have been busy creating Art- digital and otherwise- for some of the themed swaps courtesy of the members of the ATC's for All( AFA ) site as of late.....
I have a GALLERY over there featuring cards I created for some of the swaps I have been involved in.
I will be uploading a few examples to post here, in the near future!
The one posted above, Winter Tree is a photo transfer onto film, adhered to paper I made out of watercolour paper scraps and white cabbage!
It is ATC-sized, 1 in a series of 4 made for the TREES Swap I was in. The other 3 can be seen in my Gallery on the site.
Memories of Varanasi is a card I created for a Travel exchange on the Wet Canvas site, it is a digital collage of about 20 or so layers using almost all personal photos from around the holy city of Varanasi on the holy river Ganges, which my husband and I visited in the 1980"s, long ago and far away.
Most of the incredibly carved buildings built during that time of the Moghul rule still stand.
TITLE: Memories of Varanasi
CHALLENGE: Architecture challenge from The Three Muses weekly digital challenge site.
The flower seller was on the very first transfer image I ever made, and only the second ATC I traded. He fronted a card I called BEAUTY-found on my sidebar, here - as I found and still find him a sublime representative of it...and Grace..
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!
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.
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!
