The second artist trading card (ATC) swap that I participated in, involved making ATCs using the Neapolitan ice cream colors of vanilla (cream), strawberry (pink) and chocolate (brown). Doesn’t that sound so yummy?
Before I make my ATCs, I do a sort of trial run first in my mixed media notebook. For this swap, I immediately thought of birds. I wondered if there were pink birds. And yes! There is really a pink bird. That day I went to pinterest and a pin came up of a Rose colored Finch! Imagine that! Boy did I learn a lot about rose finches! There are several different varieties. Some are called Great Spotted Rose Finches and some are Pallas Rose Finches and I can’t remember the others. But they are beautiful birds to look upon.
In the top photo, I painted a rose finch in the style of Brian Wildsmith, one of my favorite illustrators. Here are some photos from my mixed media art book:
Here are what they look like:
The swap ends on September 13, so I still have to wait to see what I get in exchange.
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