a little book of ATCs

ATCs: if you’re not an artist or collector, you might not know about Artist’s Trading Cards — they’re small one-of-a-kind artworks made the same size as a standard sports trading card (2.5″ x 3.5″), so that artists can easily trade these works back and forth.

And now art-lovers everywhere collect them, just because they like these tiny expressive pieces.

I made a book out of some of mine — the subject of this group is women, mostly nudes. Practically all of these were traded to other collectors, or sold on eBay, so the originals are not available. The URL is:

http://www.lulu.com/content/284155

100 pages, all-color, and perfect-bound. You can preview the first 15 pages or so. It’s a great gift, too, probably.

(And of course, every time you buy one of these, I get a couple of dollars.)

“Tarot Stripped Bare”

“Tarot Stripped Bare”, in spite of the name, has no nudity in it, unless you count the flattened isotype figures in the tarot card images! It’s a teaching tool by D’Avekki Studios — a DVD that lets you learn about the tarot, its history and its uses. Become a reader of tarot cards!

“Tarot Stripped Bare is the 21st Century approach to learning Tarot. Cut through the myths and mysticism with this practical and simple to follow guide. Discover how reading Tarot can be fun and enlightening for you!

Tarot Stripped Bare is THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE to using Tarot cards. Learn:
- HOW TO DO A READING – quickly and easily!
- HOW TO INTERPRET THE CARDS – without memorizing lots of meanings
- HOW TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION – to get the answers that will help you the most

Tarot Stripped Bare TAKES THE GUESSWORK OUT OF TAROT:
- DE-MYSTIFY THE MAJOR ARCANA – from The Fool to The World and everything in-between
- GET TO GRIPS WITH THE MINOR ARCANA – throw away the book and let your intuition guide you
- CONQUER THE COURT CARDS – straightforward ways to read Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings”

The International Icon Tarot (http://glowinthedarkpictures.com/iitarot/index.html) is used for all the onscreen tarot depictions. Go here — http://www.tarotstrippedbare.com/ — and you’ll be able to see the details. It’s currently available in PAL format; NTSC versions are forthcoming, I’m told.

Or go here: http://archertarot.wordpress.com/, for notes by the actual producers of this DVD!

A review is right here: http://www.madebymark.com/thetarotchannel/2008/01/dvd-review-and.html

‘Corsaro’ game page: foldout for Klutz Books

This is part of a foldout image for Klutz Books. The book contains a number of rainy-day board games for children. My contribution is this one. The game is called ‘Corsaro’.

All the pieces are made separately, and composited into a single image. They’re mostly made of a self-hardening clay, and painted with acrylics.

Last year was another foldout image — a roadway for toy cars, featuring a number of sculpted clay animal characters.

H P Lovecraft Film Festival shorts block intro

This is a 1-minute short film, made as an introduction to blocks of short independent films, for the 13th annual HPL Film Festival in Portland, OR, at the Hollywood Theater.

All the drawing was done in Flash. Michael Corrigan was the sound designer and editor. It’s our little contribution to the Mythos!

Red, white and black cows

Contributing images to Broomstix.com, a site for pagan kids and their parents. It’s about the seasons of the year, personifications of special days, and activity pages.

Shown is a drawing of the three Celtic Cows of Ireland, in their traditional colors. Lots more at the site, including a bi-monthly coloring page.

frozen breakfast waffle product box stickers

4.25″ x 9″.

These are peel-and-stick images that are pasted over the front of a box of *ggo Waffles, in order to ‘protect’ them from other family members.

All of these are available from their website, apparently: “Stinky Sweatsock Casserole”, “Squish Kabobs”, “Slimy Green Stuff Surprise”, “Garbage Gumbo” and “Slop Pops”.

Many other images were made, but not used. Titles were changed many times, until the current ’safe’ ones were arrived at. To see more, go here: http://www.leggomyeggo.com/, and follow the links to “ESP”: *ggo Security Program.

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