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PUTTING THE ART IN TRADE

Issue 6 - Spring 2009

Illustration:

Drawing Animals

Interviews with

Karen Cattoire

Shelli Heinemann

Critique

Corner

Beginner’s

Mixed Media

& Collage

Backgrounds

Fabric

ATCs

SWAP HOSTING

The 101!

All About Trading

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

Cover background by Karen Cattoire

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Table of Contents Spring 2009

Art Trader Contributors

Editor’s Note & Letters

Page 13

A Trade Story

Design 911: Composition

Presenting Your Artwork on the Web: Scanning

Gallery of Warm Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange & Black

Page 23

Fabric Arts 101

Artistic Journeys: Watercolor Pencils

Feature Interview: Karen Cattoire

Gallery: Altered CDs

In the Artist’s Studio with Amy Sargent

Page 57

Feature Interview: Shelli Heinemann

Gallery: Fabric Cards

Beginner’s Mixed Media & Collage: Backgrounds

Critique Corner with Andrea Melione

CHIEF EDITOR

COPY EDITOR

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

Dana Driscoll

Meran ni Cuill

Tracie Rozario

Andrea Melione

Sal Scheibe

Dana Driscoll

Amy Sargent

Brittany Noethen

Shelli Heinemann

Sharon Safranyos

Preparing and Shipping of Mail Art

Vintage Collage Contest Winner

Gallery: Nature Kings

Illustration: Drawing (Cute) Animals

Petite Artiste: Vivian S.K.

ART DIRECTOR

ASSOCIATE DESIGNERS

Sal Scheibe

Brittany Noethen

Andrea Melione

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Contributors

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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Andrea Melione (AKA EraserQueen) has a B.S. in Arts Management and is doggedly

pursuing a Master’s in Library Science. She has been involved in Mail Art for ive years

and is the co-founder of IllustratedATCs.com. She is a contributor to ArtTrader Magazine

where she is a graphic designer and author. She mainly works in watercolor, colored

pencil, acrylics, markers and gel pens. Her work has been in four exhibits, though two were

academic and she isn’t sure if that counts enough to sound cool.

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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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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

Abi Aldrich is a K-6 Art 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, a hampster, a cockatiel 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.com

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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 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.

www.slscheibe.co

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Amy L. Sargent is a poet, mixed-media artist, and writing professor living in Roseburg,

Oregon. She trades mail art under the artist ID “amyfaerie” at www.atcsforall.com. She

lives with her husband, their three cats, and an old, hand-me-down dog. When not writing,

making art, or teaching, she is most certainly at the post ofice or at a thrift store.

Angela Kingston-Smith (aka LemurKat) is an illustrator, not an artist. With her quirky,

whimsical style she can turn anything cute and her art now graces the walls of fellow artists

all over the world, from Guatemala to Madagascar. She hails from the lovely south island of

New Zealand, and loves to add a “kiwi lavour” to her art. Kat is also a dedicated bibliophile.

Her motto is “always bring a book”. When she is not drawing, reading, sleeping or working,

Kat is usually writing (or editing). For more information on LemurKat or to see more of her

art, pay a visit to her online gallery at deviantart.

lemurkat.deviantart.co

Tracie Rozario Residing on the Sunny West Coast of Australia, Tracie is a self taught

artist and lives with her husband, 3 children, 2 cats and 2 dogs. Her preferred medium is

anything she can paint or draw with. Her passion lies in fantasy and portraits and much of

her work revolves around that theme: fantasy and whimsical style. She believes that her

biggest artistic inluence is the Impressionist movement. The use of vibrant ‘true’ colors,

visible brush strokes and freedom that the movement represents has always inspired

her. From taking the step of trading ATCs, Tracie has found herself also creating altered

Dominos, art dolls, 4”x4” chunky book pages, 8”x8” journal pages, altered Rolodex address

cards and even creating her own line of polymer stamps; things that she would never have

known about or even thought about doing. Tracie is a self-taught artist and is a qualiied

Parchment Craft Australia Teacher and Duncan Ceramics Teacher. She also paints larger

works on commission.

www.purplerealm.etsy.co

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Editor’s Letter

by Dana Driscoll

Here at ArtTrader Magazine we have been very excited to announce our new site, shop, and workshop

series! The new www.arttradermag.com site is full of new features that will inspire you as an artist.

First, we have opened up an ArtTrader Store! Our store currently features a variety of fantastic collage

sheets and books produced by artists in our community. The current books featured there include

Color: A Collaborative Perspective and The Best of IllustratedATCs.com 2007 , both created by artists at

IllustratedATCs.com. We look forward to bringing you even more great books, including the ATCsforALL

2008 and the ArtTrader Year 1 Compilation book!

We are also very pleased to announce the irst two workshops in our new online series—Whimsy Art

Part I and Part II. We hope that you’ll be able to join us for these interactive online workshops and

that they bring you inspiration. Because not everyone knows what “Whimsy Art” exactly is, we have

included an article introducing Whimsy Art in this issue.

And, as usual, we have a jam-packed issue full of eye candy, techniques, and so much more! This month

we feature technique articles on scanning in your art to display online, an article on Packaging your

ATCs for swaps and mailing, and an introduction to collage backgrounds. And if that isn’t enough, we

also have a look at the studio of Amy Sargent, and interviews with Karen Cattoire and Shelli Heinemann.

We also have our regular columns, including Artistic Journeys, Design 911, Petite Artiste, and more. So

read, be inspired, and go create some art!

Everyone is here on

earth as an artist;

to tell his particular

story or sing her

irreplaceable song; to

leave a unique creative

signature.

Leonard Wolf

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