Artist Trading Cards

I recently subscribed to a magazine called UPPERCASE. I was introduced to it by my sister in law. It's a high quality magazine produced in Canada for the creative and curious. It is colourful, fun and full of stories of creative people and their work. There are articles about printers, stitchers, painters, crafters, makers, cake bakers, jewelry makers, collectors and the list continues. I love this magazine.

This month we could sign up to trade ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) with someone else. So I signed up. The cards have to be 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size, the typical artist trading card size and can be made with any medium but just have to be flat enough to mail. We have to make at least 5: One to mail to the person we are trading with, one to trade with a new friend made via UPPERCASE circle an online forum for the magazine, one to exchange with a local artist or creative friend, one to send to the editor of UPPERCASE and one to keep. These have to be mailed before May 15, 2020.

I decided to make them from fabric (no surprise). I expect the one coming to me will be drawn or painted. This week I went through some of my canoe trip photos and chose some that I thought I could reproduce with fabric.

Below are some sketches and the couple that I have completed so far.