Joanna Grant Mixed Media Art: artist trading card

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Featured Artist - Ginny Markley "Playing With Paint"

Handmade Art Journal By Ginny Markley

Artist Trading Cards By Ginny Markley

The absolute BEST thing about joining online art communities is the wonderful friendships you make with other artists from all over the world. I can't even begin to express how important these people are to me and how much I value having them in my life.

Case in point, my dear friend Ginny Markley. We have never met in person. She lives in Florida and I live in Western Canada. While it is my heartfelt wish that we do meet one day, even if we don't she has a special place in my heart. A talented, generous soul, Ginny has a terrific blog you may want to check out. She offers tutorials of how she creates her wonderful work. Here is the link:

Ginny Markley's Blog

Ginny recently surprised me with one of her wonderful handmade art journals, along with some of her fabulous ATCs (see photos above). If you are interested in how she created the journal, here is the link to that tutorial:

Paper Lunch Bag Art Journal Tutorial

And here is a link to her ATC work too:

Ginny's ATC Tutorial

It will be my absolute pleasure and honor to use this beautiful gift in which to create my art and I will think of my dear friend, Ginny, whenever I use it.

Cheers!
Joanna

WIN A VINTAGE IMAGES COLLECTION !!

FIVE CHANCES TO WIN !!

No, this is not an April Fool's Day joke, you can win a copy of my Vintage Christmas Images CD Collection with just a couple clicks of your mouse. Here's how.

To the immediate right of this blog post, look for "Networked Blogs" and click on "Follow This Blog." That's all you have to do and you'll be in the draw on April 3 to win one of five of these CDs.

If you'd like a second chance to win, just share this message on Facebook and let me know you've shared it and you'll double your chances of winning.

It's never too early to start your Christmas crafting and art projects and this beautiful collection will inspire you! There are over 1,200 vintage Victorian and Edwardian images in simple JPG format on this CD. You can use them just as they are or manipulate them in PhotoShop or other editing software. Check out the small sampling that follows for the kinds of images you'll get in this collection.

These are public domain images that you can use for all your personal artful projects, even those you intend to sell. The only restriction on the images is that the collection cannot be reproduced in whole or in part for resale, either in print or digitally, because the collection as a whole is copyrighted. Otherwise, you are free to do what you want with the images.

Thanks for all your support in visiting my blog and good luck in the draw.

Cheers!
Joanna

Free Funky Images For Your Artful Pleasure!

Seems it is time, once again, to share some more free images that you can use in your artful endeavors.

This time, the images shown are scans from some of my original art from days gone by. If you know me at all, you know I love to re-use my art images in new art projects, creating whole new one-of-a-kind pieces. I am a firm believer that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you sit down to create something. Make use of your original art over and over again by scanning it at high resolution and saving it to a directory for future use. Believe me, if you start doing this you'll never be at a loss for an image when you need it.

Anyway, here are a few for you to have fun with. Just right click on the image to save it to your own computer. You are welcome to use these images in anything you create. I only ask that if you make something that you sell or publish, that you cite credit for the use of the image.

As always, if you'd like to share images of what you make with these, I would love to see them!

Happy creating!
Joanna

ATC and ACEO Art

In the early to mid 2000s in the Ebay art selling world, a group of artists took the idea of ATCs (artist trading cards) and developed it further into an art form called ACEO. ACEO stands for Art Cards Editions and Originals. ATCs were always meant only for trading/swapping, while ACEOs were for selling (or trading/swapping). Both ATCs and ACEOs must have the same dimensions as a standard trading card (like hockey and baseball cards), which is 2.5" X 3.5".

I was fortunate to be involved with the Ebay ACEO group in its infancy and spent several years selling my ACEO art on Ebay with this fantastic collection of artists.

Because I had already been selling my miniature art magnets on Ebay for several years when the ACEO group formed, it was an easy transition to move from my business card sized magnets (2" X 3.5") to ACEO size. I can remember many artists at that time who typically worked in much larger formats having real difficulty adjusting to producing original art on such a small scale. I also remember feeling so very fortunate to already be comfortable creating art at that size. It is not for everyone.

ACEOs are still very big business and I would really like to find more time to create them again. I need a clone!

Anyway, I thought you might like to see some photos of a few of the ACEOs I produced in those days. These samples are from 2005 and 2006 and are (were) all originals. Again, each measures 2.5" X 3.5" (the size of a standard trading card).

I hope you enjoy this stroll down memory lane. And just as I do with my current art, all of this older work was made with recycled and reclaimed materials.