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PUTTING THE ART IN TRADE

Issue 4 - Autumn 2008

PAPER

Making

WAX ART

Thread

Painting

Whimsy

Journal page by Kristy Christopherson

All about trading

ATCs, Altered Art, Art Journals, Chunky Books & Creative Inspiration

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Table of Contents Autumn 2008

Art Trader Contributors

Editor’s Note & Letters

Page 9

Design 911: Composition

Hooked on Crayons: Wax Art Techniques

Gallery: Colorful, Funky Portraits

Postcards: The New Mail Art

Page 13

Rocking Rolo Cards

Artistic Journeys: Homemade Paper for Mail Art

Gallery Skinny Pages: Colorful Mixed Media Trees

Easy Whimsy Art for People Who Can’t Draw

(Yet!)

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Featured Artist: Tabitha Ladin

Gallery: Design-A-Pony

Art of Darkness: Exploring Darker Themes

Through Art

CHIEF EDITOR

COPY EDITOR

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

Dana Driscoll

Meran ni Cuill

Cathy Green

Kati Barrett

Martha Lee

Rochelle Greene

Tracie Rozario

Andrea Melione

Sal Scheibe

Dana Driscoll

Sal Scheibe

Brittany Noethen

Andrea Melione

IllustratedATCs.com

Thread Painting: Techniques & Tips

Readers Gallery

Silk Art Paper

Petite Artiste: Ian El-Habre

ART DIRECTOR

ASSOCIATE DESIGNERS

Vlogging with Ela Steel

PUBLISHED BY

Autumn Rolo Contest Winner & Entries

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Contributors

Sal Scheibe works as a creative designer for print and web and also as a freelance

illustrator. Her designs and artwork have appeared in books, CDs and DVDs,

brochures and posters. Sal is currently working on a number of large canvas

paintings for art shows. She also enjoys trading ATCs and is an administrator at

IllustratedATCs.com. Sal’s favorite artists and illustrators include Joe Sorren, J.C.

Leyendecker, William Bougereau and John Singer Sargent. Her favored mediums

are acrylic paint, colored pencils and markers.

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Andrea Melione is currently a full-time student, planning on eventually earning a

Master’s in Library Science. She loves all types of art, but is fond of the Surreal

and Symbolist movements. Her favorite artists are Michael Parkes, Daniel

Merriam, Aubrey Beardsley and her buddies at IllustratedATCs.com, where she is

a Moderator. She mainly works in watercolor, colored pencil, acrylics, markers and

gel pens, though not all at once. She lives in NY (cow country, not the city) and has

dificulty writing biographies in the third person.

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Dana Driscoll is an experimental artist working in a variety of media including

watercolors, mixed media, oils, clay, book arts, hand papermaking, and altered

art. She is currently working on several artistic projects, including painting her

way through a 78-card tree tarot deck and combining her love of pottery and

bookmaking. When not avoiding the perils of pursuing her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and

Composition, she can be found frolicking in nearby forests or hanging out with

her nerdy gamer friends. Dana’s work can be found at her blog: artisticjourneys.

blogspot.com and she can be reached at adriayna@yahoo.com.

www.artisticjourneys.etsy.co

Brittany Noethen is an artist living in a tech manager’s body. She would rather be

decapitated than give up making art, trading ATCs, or stop thinking that the phrase

“Mufins or Bust” is hilarious. She currently lives in Iowa with her partner Cat, her

12 year old pit bull, Maggie, and shelves full of art supplies.

www.bnoethen.etsy.co

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Meran niCuill Fascinated by nature and science, Meran ni Cuill attempts daily to

translate her passions into art. Sometimes she feels she even succeeds! And then

something else will catch her attention and off she’ll go! Chasing another ideal.

Meran enjoys gardening, sunsets, dogs, birds, and just about anything as long

as it’s not endless crowds of people. When those present, she’ll retreat to a quiet

place and read a book, or cut some glass, both of which she inds therapeutic.

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Abi Aldrich is an K-6Art teacher in Wyoming. She sells oil paintings professionally,

makes pottery because she likes to play in the mud, and generally makes text

based sculptures and installations because that is her true love. Beyond that

she loves printmaking, drawing, and graphic design. In all her massive amounts

of free time, Abi hangs out with her menagarie, including several rabbits, a

chinchilla and a large bearded dragon. She also calls West Africa every night to

talk to the love of her life, Gee. So in a nutshell she is a nut who likes to make a

mess in art!

www.abigayle.etsy.co

Kati Barrett was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ. She now resides in northern

California with her 2 kitties and mountains of art supplies. Kati was exposed to

art from birth on, one of the blessings of having an artist mother. “I am a fulltime

social worker who longs to be a fulltime artist. Collage is my medium. I love

being able to take completely unrelated images or items and make them relate

by positioning and color usage. I see art as my spiritual path and I work out my

questions about god and the universe through my pieces. I am also a jokester

and I like to throw in unusual and odd images. Give me a cutesy theme and I am

bound to make a quirky or dark piece about it!” If Kati could give one piece of

advice to new artists it would be to practice their craft everyday, no matter what.

. Ang Westermann A nurse by profession, she is also an artist of the heart and

soul. A transplant from the U.S., she moved to Ontario, Canada in 2000; she lives

in a little green house with her husband, her dog, cat and art supplies. A collector

of pens, markers and anything that writes, this artist began her quest for Heart

Art in 2002 and found the world of ATCs. Shakepeare once said “Give sorrow

words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it

break.” After a personal tragedy, she needed a voice and art became that voice.

Six years later, her art is whimsical, fun and funky. With no formal art training, she

creates straight from her heart. She is a woman on a mission to leave a Legacy

of Love for chubby girls, and to let every woman know that she is loved and

beautiful, no matter her size.

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Letter from

the Editor

When I think about my own work as an

artist, I think about milestones. Artistic

endeavors that I take on that are dificult

to complete, but once completed, present

much satisfaction. Milestones with my

own skill, milestones with techniques,

milestones with projects. My most recent

artistic milestone has been with my hand-

painted tarot deck, the Tarot of Trees, and

inishing the second suit of four. As a

mail artist, I also see inishing up swaps,

or sending all of the envelopes back to the

players, as milestones themselves. There

is a great satisfaction to be had when you

walk into the post ofice with 40 chunky

book-illed envelopes, and walk out empty

handed, knowing they are going back to

their owners to be treasured.

Milestones have been very important for

our publication and family of sites recently

as well. This, our fourth issue, marks a

signiicant milestone for ArtTrader Magazine. We have now been in publication for a year! We have decided to create

a print-on-demand book for you to purchase of our irst four issues. Partial issues will remain free online, of course,

but for those of you who want to put Art Trader on your shelf, you now have that option. [ed. - There will be a nominal

fee for the full version]

IllustratedATCs also recently released two publishing milestones of their own, The Best of Illustrated ATCs 2007 and

Color: A Collaborative Perspective. The Best of Illustrated ATCs 2007 is a full-color, beautiful book jam-packed full of

ATC-sized eye candy arranged by theme (www.lulu.com/content/3202513). Color: A Collaborative Perspective was

a group art project focused on color as a unifying theme (www.lulu.com/content/2689642).

We are also proud to announce that ATCsforall.com is also accepting submissions for a book of their own, as of yet

untitled. Every member at ATCsforall.com is eligible to submit and everyone who submits will have at least one piece

of art in the book. So check it out! www.atcsforall.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5537

We have also just released www.mailartportal.com -- a unifying site that links our three unique communities, the Art

Trader publication, and the books and group projects we have available for people to purchase. So many milestones,

in such a short time.

In closing, I’d like to dedicate this issue of Art Trader Magazine to A.C. Buchanan, who died of complications with

leukemia this past summer. Lisa, his wife, is a pillar to our mail art communities and we would like to reach out to her

during this dificult time.

Happy creating everyone!

Dana Lynn Driscoll

Chief Editor, Art Trader Magazine

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