Artist Trading Cards: The Three Muses

As I dive deeper and deeper into the role of mixed media artist I’m discovering a real need to practice, practice, practice. The only problem is that I also have to balance my business owner side with my artist side.
Enter Artist Trading Cards, or ATC’s for short. Small, the size of a baseball card, my thought is that creating them will allow me to practice, experiment with art technique and style. My first set of cards I entitled The Muses, a set of three faces, close up.
Follow along as I create Muse #1 in the video below ( the materials list is below the video.)
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- Artist Trading Card base cut from manila tagboard
- Caran D’ache NeoColor II crayons in salmon, cinnamon and saffron
- Derwent Inktense pencils in Baked Earth, Leaf Green, Apple Green, Ink Black
- Golden heavy body acrylic paints in Titanium White and Indian Yellow Hue
- Liquitex Basics heavy body acrylic paints in Brilliant Yellow Green and Unbleached Titanium
- Golden Fluid Acrylics in Quinacridone Magenta
- Simply Simmons round brush #6 and assorted generic small detail brushes
- Sharpie Fine Black Waterproof pen
- Uniball Signo White gel pen
- Wink of Stella Clear Glitter pen