Artist Trading Cards (And ACEOs)

Art in Your Pocket - ATCs

This is one of the best basic write-ups on ATCS, at Cedarseed

ATCards.com - Artist Trading Card Forums

A forum to discuss ATCs, with templates, some articles, and forums heavily used to organise ATC swaps etc.

ATC Cards by Robert Luigi

Galleries of Digital ATCs

Artist Trading Cards - A Colloborative Performance

Trading website with several permutations of ways to swap your ATCs. Predominantly a European site, but check out the links section to find other helpful ATC websites.

ATC Wikipedia

Information on ATCs , and their offshoots ACEOs (Art Cards Editions and Originals)

Visual Art Journals and Other Books & Journals

Teesha Moore

Teesha Moore is famous for her art journals. Check the galleries here. And she also has an article up on how she creates her art journal pages layer by layer under the news section. Check the links pages also - there are a huge amount of links here to get lost browsing through.

Art Swaps - Fat Chunky Books

Some information on the origin of Fat Books.

Lisa Vollrath and her Glue Fat Book

A fat book which is also an interpretation of a glue book also.

Visual Journal Swap at Flickr

Visit Traci Bunker's slideshow at Flickr to find views of a colloborative journal swap with fellow artists Juliana Coles and Karen Michels. Traci also has an interesting gallery of mailart here also.

Collage

B-Muse's Collage Techniques Directory of Projects

Check out the various projects in this directory

Collageart.org

Links to collage artists, books on collage, collage workshops, photomontage artists, and assemblage artists.

Claudine Hellmuth - Collageartist.com

Claudine's work is currently taking the scrapbooking world and offshoots by storm, and her mixed media collage paintings with photos have a recognisable style. She is also the author of popular collage books, Collage Discovery Workshop, and the sequel, Collage Discovery Workshop - Beyond the Unexpected.

Altered Art

Altered Book Gallery at Art-E-Zine

If you're after some images of altered books, check this gallery for some - not up to date, but worth a peruse for some inspiration.

Judy Ham's Altered Books

Large gallery of all sorts of altered book and journal projects.

General Inpiration

Art-E-Zine

Perhaps the best known mixed media art site, Art-E-Zine has so many layers to it that you could spend days browsing the projects, articles and images available here.

Lisa Vollrath

A fabulous site , take a look at all the how to articles Lisa puts up, for altered books, ATCs, mailart, and even some normal papercrafts like iris folding or background chalking.

Jen Osborn - Identity Seven

A featured artist in several mixed media idea books, Jen Osborn's website has some interesting galleries for altered books, decos, art journals and boxes, and several other projects for many art enthusiasts.

Modern Gypsy - Elizabeth Badurina

Copious articles, galleries, and publications you can buy. Purchase her little zines on altered books etc - she's fantastic. As are the galleries of images and ideas found in this site.

Tattered Edge

Another mixed media artist - Leilania Lloyd with fantastic galleries in everything ranging from altered projects, ATCs, colloborative journals, collages to handmade journals.

The Green Frog Studio

The personal site of Celine Navarro, with beautiful galleries of ATCs and Art Journals.

Artella Words and Art Zine

Check the shoppes for both digital and tradition artists, helpful e-books on many creativity and mixed media topics, and consider subscribing to this regular zine. The Artella Zine comes in full color with inserts and mixed media work by many artists. E-zines are available too - but it's the physical ones which come out that are stunning. Also, you can sign up to be a member for additional options such as downloadable images to use in your digital projects.

Mail Art : A Pathfinder

A definitive site on Mail Art, it's history and associated techniques. Links can be found here for collage, artistamps, book arts and visual and concrete poetry.

An Artist Colloborative Circle Book

For 36 weeks an art journal was sent randomly between 2 Brooklyn and 2 Belfast Art Journelers. Each only had a few days to complete their entry, before posting it on. This is the result.

Karen Michel

As author of The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery, Karen's mixed media work can be found in galleries from this website. She has mixed media work, book arts, visual journals, and altered photos and photography on her pesonal website.

Mail Art Wikipedia

Information on all types of mail art, ATCs, artistamps...

Aisling.net

Here you will find tutorials and images on just about everything, including visual journals and ATCs. She has an interesting article on how to collage in your art journals here and interesting information on Artistamps here. Pocket shrines are here and some interesting How To links also - including an article on How to Create a Zine (something which many digital artists could easily do).

Mixed Media Blogs

Scrapability's Blog List

Check this out for some mixed media / altered arts / art journal artists. There are too many to list here. If you chase around these blogs you will find links to even more mixed media artists.

Altered Belly

Decos, fat books, journal books, lovely projects.

Karen Michel's Altered Imagery

Author of the book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery, Karen's blog shares many multi media projects.

Traci Bunker

Art Journalist and altered photography.

CollageMania

A contributory blog with several artists guaranteeing that a new collage pops up as a fresh entry very often.

A1 Mailart Archive

A Blog of Mail Art images found from all over the net.

Inspire Me Thursday

Thursday Challenges for Mixed Media projects, including some tutorials on the challenges also.

Navylane Studio

The blog of Melanie Komisarski, one of the co-founders of Inspire Me Thursday.

Misty Eyed Art

The blog of Misty Mawn, the co-founder of Inspire Me Thursday


WordCraft

Tera's Wish

Tera talks "Creativity" but has many articles written around journaling ideas, circle journals, visual journals etc. Named the Writer's Digest "101 Best Web Sites for Writers" list 2003 - 2005.

Broadcasting To You

HeartsART

Part of the Talkback Radio Series of websites, HeartsART is about Mixed Media Arts - log on to listen to the latest broadcasts featuring mixed media artist and projects. The radio shows are archived on the web to listen to. Check out the show on computers as an artist tool, and several other interesting shows.

Crafty Pod

An Arts and Craft Podcast - several editions have alternative arts sessions on them. Subscribe to pick up the latest edition once it is available.

Submissions and Magazines

Altered Art Magazine

This magazine website has details on subscriptions and submission to the magazine for projects and articles.

Artella Words and Art Zine

The Artella Zine comes in full color with inserts and mixed media work by many artists. E-zines are available too - but it's the physical ones which come out that are stunning. Digital projects are often featured. Submissions are welcomed, particularly if you have a combined writing and art project. The submissions page has further information.

Artitude Zine

Subscribe to this zine from this website, and also check out the gallery where projects unable to be featured in the printed zine are available. You may also submit projects according to upcoming themes, and articles from the submissions page. The zine takes scanned images for submissions.

Groups

Collagecats

Active group, fantastic collages are put up in the files area, and the messages are active and supportive also.

Altered Books

This group has been long-running, and has a fine files collection of other links to some good art zines etc.

Art-E-Zine Cafe

A group which runs from the art-e-zine website - the files and links in here are well worth the participation. Very inspirational on many different type of artwork.

Artist Journals 2

A supportive Yahoo Group for Art Journals

Fat Books

Active Fat Book Swaps are moderated from this Yahoo Groups

Printable and Image Resources

Misc. Images

The Toymaker

Beautiful paper toys - in pdf format to print out and make up. Find little boxes, a tooth fairy gazebo and all sorts of lovely paper toys here.

Yamaha's Papercraft Printables

PDF files for printing and assembling some wonderful paper figurines - from motorcycles to endangered animals, and seasonal prints as well.

Canon's 3D Paper Models

Canon's site provides copious PDF downloads for printing and assembling several cute paper figurines or sculptures. Check out the dachshund and other animals for a start.

Photography

Stock XChng

Famous as being a free source for quite a few photographic categories - be careful of the copywrite or permissions required to reuse some of these images from the owner of the image.

Iron Orchid's Photo Clipart

Various photographic images here.

Jay Arraich Free Black and White Photographs

Free for personal use only - good moody black and white shots.

Vintage Images

Art-E-Zine

Art-E-Zine provides pages and pages of free downloadable vintage images to play with. There are victorian images, old family photos, some retro images. Help support the downloads by donating a small fee to allow for the bandwidth.

Collage Images at Flickr

This Flickr group has been created to share Collage images for downloading. The group pool has provided all sorts of images, from vintage photos to postage stamps and other collage items such as old document scans.

Scrapability's List of Vintage Images

Too many to list immediately, check my own listings from this page for several image collections available to download free.

University of Florida ETC

A collection of 11,000 pieces of clipart, free to download

Iron Orchid's Antiquity Project

Illustrations from some Literary themes.

For the Love of Opera Gloves

Stage and Actor / Actress Photographs available here.

New York Public Library Picture Collection Online

Large collection of vintage photographs, available to save for personal use only.

Images of Women From the Past

Private collection of images taken from the 1860s to 1930s, downloadable for personal use.

Travel Brochure Ephemera from the 1920s and 1930s

Travel Posters collected by David Levine.

Specifically Digital

Digital Collage Tutorial

A brief tutorial using Photoshop.

Mixed Media Art Digital Tutorial

Using Paint Shop Pro, this tutorial at Vitual Art Room is worth checking out for many techniques.

ArtLexis

5 Digital Collage artists profile their work from the ArtLexis website.

Digital Collage Gallery

This gallery of digital collages features celebrity photographs.

Jeremy David Sutton

Interesting gallery of images from this digital collage artist, who is also the author of books on Digital Collage using Corel Painter, and also provides some tutorials on using painter on his website Painter Creativity.

The Virtual Art Room Internet Art Tutorial

Created for school students, telling them how to save, categorise and hyperlink to saved art images from the world wide web, this tutorial could provide some ideas for any digital artists trying to catalogue their own image collections.

 

 

 

   
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