Ross invited me to trade some art cards with some fellow students of his at UVic this week and it was a good, low-pressure opportunity to spend an evening basically doodling around within a 2.5×3.5 inch area. Pictured from top, left to right:
- Leaves, foil and magazine collage, with bonus velum sleeve.
- I-190 & NY 98 Interchange. Arcylic on velum and bristol.
- Ink on bristol
- Magazine collage, acrylic and watercolour on bristol.
Overall the exercise was pretty fun: the slight pressure to produce something to trade with on Friday made me put aside four hours of freedom to basically create anything I found interesting that could fit onto a card.
I ended up trading the velum-sleeved collage for one of Justin’s “personal demons” series (B&W portrait of a sitting man with a stitched cloth head) and traded Interchange for a half-tone colour photoshopped comic-like drawing of a rocket man from Ross.
The variety and range of styles from among the other seven people at the gathering in Finnerty Gardens was pretty cool: from ballpoint doodles on scrap paper to connect-the-dot name tags to photographs to coloured flowers. Artistic skill not nescesarrily required. And we shared the background on cards people picked out, what the card was about or what we intended to show. People also kept their cards in Ultra-Pro sleeves, like you used for hockey, Star Trek and X-Men cards as a kid.
So I hope to make it out next Friday with a lot more cards to trade. It was actually more fun trading away my work for someone else’s than creating in the first place.
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