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Three Colourful ATCs

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Group:Cyber Classroom and ATC Studio
Swap Coordinator:kangarueg (contact)
Swap categories: Themed  Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:October 18, 2009
Date items must be sent by:November 8, 2009
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

For this swap, you will be working with only your three primary colours. You can choose any medium you want, however, I would recommend using coloured pencils, acrylic or watercolour paint or crayons only. All these mediums are easy to mix and can create some nice looking pieces. Oil pastels will smear real easily, and may not make the posting. Ink is difficult to work with. Markers do well, but have a tendency to mix on the felt tip, and therefore contaminate the pens. Glazes are too transparent.

For this swap, you will be creating 3 ATCs for one partner. For the first ATC, you will create a colour wheel. (Google “colour wheel” to get some ideas.) The colour “wheel” does not necessarily need to be round. Use your imagination. Draw it out in light pencil first – an H, 2H or 4H works well. Then, using ONLY primary colours, create 12 different colours for your colour wheel – 3 primary, 3 secondary and 6 tertiary. Use a micron pen (or some dark ink) to label each colour. Depending on what your “wheel” looks like, you may want to even trace over your pencil lines with the micron pen.

For the second card, you will draw a small object using ONLY primary colours. Maybe you want to draw a blue bottle, with a yellow label sitting on a red cloth. Keep it simple. And use ONLY primary colours. The end result might end up looking “flat” but that’s ok. We are working with blocks of colour. If you want to use the lines like we talked about in our last lesson (hatching, cross hatching, stippling or contour) that’s ok too.

For the third card, draw the same small object using COMPLEMENTARY colours only. (This card will be done all in secondary colours.) So this card would have an orange bottle, with a purple label sitting on a green cloth. This card is to be the companion to the other one, so use the same style drawing.

Just like the colour wheel, you may want to sketch out your drawing first using a light pencil (H, 2H or 4H). If you are doing it in colour pencil, don’t use the graphite. Use a yellow pencil instead.

Any questions, PM me. Ditto with suggestions. If I have not been clear, please let me know and I will correct it. I will give you a couple of weeks to sign up for the swap, and a couple to complete the cards. I have taken on another job, and in the process of moving house, so it may be several days before I get back to you. But I will get back to you ASAP. In the mean time, happy swapping!

Discussion

kangarueg 10/ 3/2009 #

ok - i see you all watching this swap... but only one joined? is it scary? was i not clear? is it too much? (i will refrain from calling out "chicken" and begin clucking!) let me know how i need to change the swap to get more of you to join. remember, this is a swap all about the colour - if the drawings are a bit shaky still, that's ok. maybe it would be easier if the 2nd and 3rd cards could even be cut out of coloured paper.... let me know what it would take to get more of you to join!!!

hopelessshade 10/ 4/2009 #

Well, I'm back at Uni now. :P Dunno what you guys' excuses are. I do have a kickass idea for one card, though, so maybe it'll pull through. (big maybe)

bluehighways 10/ 6/2009 #

I'm not skeert

hollycm6 10/ 7/2009 #

Um, okay, embarrassingly enough, I didn't see the lesson OR the swap until today!! Major oops. I was just going to chastise you soundly for not having the next lesson up yet... no, actually I wasn't but I like that phrase. Actually I assumed you were too busy with school etc and I was going to give you a break, BUT I was WANTING to chastise.

So I did join. I probably won't start this until after my daughter's wedding, the 25th, so, Swap Partner, whomever you may be, yours will likely be mailed out JUST in time to beat the deadline. Not early unless I need a major art break for my sanity!! I started an art swap today called "There's a word for people like you ;) " which some of you might like. Holly

hopelessshade 10/ 9/2009 #

I'm kinda freaked out by the "use only primary/secondary colors!" ones. Seriously? That's gonna look like a Mondrian, except not, since it's going to be representational. So it's gonna look as though cut out of construction paper. Does each object have to be a separate color? Can we shade a yellow object with red, for example, and a red one with blue? So as to not make them orange and purple, respectively, of course. Otherwise I'm at a loss for how to make it look any good.

I guess we can shade with black, since you said crosshatching was allowed... and leave the white of the background instead of tint....or would you consider that not the point of the exercise?

kangarueg 10/11/2009 #

good questions - yes, i know that the atcs will look rather "blockish" - that's ok. the goals of this exercise are to 1) get practise mixing colours 2) develop understanding of primary and secondary colours - (colour theory) and 3) put practical application to vocabulary.

now, if you are comfortable with that, then by all means, take more liberty as you like. but may i suggest, try NOT to use black when you doing your crosshatching... instead, use your main colours' complement. .. yeah, if you have a purple object, it might be kind difficult to use yellow, but give it a go anyway. you might be surprised at the subtle shade change. mine is looking really flat right now.... but i think i will use some of the colours from the pieces around it to show some reflected light on it, not sure yet. but flat is all right, too. matisse used nothing but construction paper the later part of his life and did pretty well!

hollycm6 10/21/2009 #

Welll... I did my cards... And way before the deadline. I had wondered previously, and now it was REALLY clear... one of my paints, my red, is not a true red. It looks lovely on my card with the three primary colors. But when I mix purple it is slightly brown. And totally ugly. I will get a new red next time I am at Michael's! But it might still be ugly by the time I send out my ATCs. So I want to apologize to my partner! :)

hollycm6 10/21/2009 #

I "happened" into Michael's today and seized the opportunity to grab some primary red. Ugh, it's awful... but I redid all three cards! And they are better... color-wise, anyway. :)

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