ATC: Bonsai

Winter Sky

One Of Four Bonsai ATCs

Artist Trading Card (ATC)

Hand Drawing/Painting

2.5 x 3.5 Inches

Acrylic, Watercolor & Ink

Sketchbook Drawing: Bonsai Pine

Moon Greeting Pine

Water Soluble Ink

And Water Brush

5 x 5.5 Inches

Small Watercolor: Bonsai

Breath

(©2008)

Watercolor And Ink

5 x 5.5 Inches

Cut Edges

Arches 140# Bright White Cold Press

Watercolor : Bonsai

Dusk

(©2003)

Small Watercolor

Approximately 7.5 x 11 Inches

Deckle & Rough Edges

Lanaquarelle 140# Cold Press

Watercolor: Bonsai

Aware
(© 2003)

Small Watercolor
Approximately 5.5 x 7.5 Inches
Deckle & Rough Edges
Lanaquarelle 140# Cold Press
Dated: 9-5-2003

Digital Drawing/Painting: Bonsai

Infinite Light

Digital Drawing/Painting
Variable Sizes From 10 X 10 Inches

Wacom Cintiq
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
Corel Painter Essentials 4

Sketchbook: Bonsai

Root Over Stone

Sketchbook Drawing/Painting
Approx. 5.25 x 6 Inches
Ink, Watercolor and Acrylic

Bonsai Digital Drawing/Painting

Digital Drawing/Painting
7.5 x 7.5 Inches
Wacom Cintiq
Corel Painter Essentials 4

Bonsai ATC

May (Bonsai)

Watercolor, Acrylic & Ink
Lanaquarelle 140#
Cold Press Watercolor Paper
Torn Edges
2.5 x 3.5 Inches

Altered Bonsai Sketch

Ink Drawing (2006) from a sketchbook. Altered with Digital Drawing/Painting Color and Filters (2009).

Grey Light
3-24 ©06 Sketchbook Drawing - Ink
Approximately 5 x 5.5 Inches
2009 Altered with Digital Drawing/Painting

2nd Summer Triptych ATC Set

This Summer Triptych Set was the first set I did. This set works as a unit however the off center placement (which in general I prefer for most works) of the lanai meant the center and right card panels didn’t work as well as I wanted them to work on their own. Because I wanted the cards to also work well individually I did a second set (shown in the previous post of this blog).

The view is looking out toward the sea from the lanai of a beach house. Lanai is a Hawaiian word that loosely means porch or veranda.

Left Panel - 1 of 3: Summer Trees
Center Panel - 2 of 3: Summer Seas
Right Panel - 3 of 3: Summer Drinks

Mixed Media including Ink, Watercolor and Acrylic on 140# (300 gsm) Cold Press Bright White Arches Watercolor Paper





The back side of this Summer Triptych Set has the following written across all three card panels as one piece:

Whisper within the trees Whisper within the night and day
Across the endless skies Across the endless seas
Summer find a way to come back to me Within
The endless breeze Within the endless blossoms
Summer find a way to return endlessly to me

If the space were the right shape I would probably have written it this way:

Whisper within the trees
Whisper within the night and day
Across the endless skies
Across the endless seas
Summer find a way
To come back to me
Within the endless breeze
Within the endless blossoms
Summer find a way
To return endlessly to me

Summer Triptych ATC Mail Art Swap

Three ATCs that will be swapped as a unit in a Summer Triptych Mail Art Swap.

Left 1 of 3: Summer Hawaii Bonsai
Center 2 of 3: Summer Hawaii Seas
Right 3 of 3: Summer Hawaii Breeze

Mixed Media including Ink, Watercolor and Acrylic on 140# (300 gsm) Cold Press Bright White Arches Watercolor Paper

The view is looking out toward the sea from the lanai of a beach house. Lanai is a Hawaiian word that loosely means porch or veranda.

Collaborative Mail Art Sketchbook Spread; Sanctuary

This sketchbook is approximately 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15.25 cm). An open double page spread becomes approximately 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm).

Contributors in this Mail Art Project initiate a sketchbook with a theme of their choice. The theme of this sketchbook is My Sanctuary.

My spread is Mixed Media, including: Ink, Watercolor and Digital Technology Painting and Drawing. Each contributor works on a double page spread (facing pages in the open book). They then leave a small piece of work on the next page for the following contributor that in some way continues from the work on the previous page. The idea is to create some continuity flow from work to work. The four spirals at the bottom of the left page above were placed for me to work into my double page spread.




This is the piece I left for the next contributor to work into their double page spread.

The sketchbook is passed on or back and forth through the mail until the sketchbook is completed, at which time it is returned to the originator.

Bonsai Theme ATC; Belief

ATC Title: Belief
Subject: Bonsai

Ink & Watercolor on
140# (300gsm) Cold Press Bright White
Arches Watercolor Paper

I often paint several washes as a background on my papers. These backgrounds influence color in my work and sometimes become foreground as well.

If I remember right this Arches paper is sized both internally and externally. Sizing helps to hold paint on the surface of the paper rather than being absorbed into the paper which can cause some of the intensity of a color to be lost. Light reflecting up through transparent watercolor from the surface of the paper is what helps to create depth in layers of transparent watercolor as well as creating a sense of brightness in the color.

This image is actually on the reverse side of the watercolor paper. The paper is from a sheet I did for chunky pages which are now at a mid-state of creation. Chunky pages are seen on both sides as a page in a book would be seen so I like to give both sides a background of washes. I like the way paint goes on this side of this paper although I usually prefer the other side for most works. In this case I liked the color scheme on this side of the paper for the Bonsai ATC.

Tree ATC

Title: Tree
2.5 x 3.5 inches (6.35 x 8.9 cm)
Ink and Watercolor on
Arches Bright White 140# cold press Watercolor Paper

An ATC with a tree potted as in bonsai. bonsai is a theme i return to often. this is one i did working out the idea for the 4x4 piece Trees i posted a couple of days ago. I may use this ATC in an open theme Mail Art swap group.