Artist Trading Cards

Artist Trading Cards (ATC) are small works of art about the size of a standard playing card -in the UK - 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". They can be produced in many materials from collage, marker pen, watercolours, acrylics, almost any thing. The idea is that they are traded (not sold) between artist or indeed anyone. The idea was conceived by Swiss artist M. Vanci Stirnemann, back in 1966 and in 1967 he had a show of 1200 cards he produced. Today there are group meetings where people trade cards. Some galleries are offering ATC events. Below are some examples of my first attempt at making some.