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This was my first foray into ACEO(art trading cards). My fiance's developed an interest in collecting them, and his 9 yr old and I got together and decided that I would try this.
I used a line art knot as visual reference, but other than that, it's completely hand painted in Photoshop 7.
The border's not my favorite thing, and our printer is junk lol, so I'll be taking the file up to a printer to have it printed out better.
I'm oddly kinda shy about it, lol. But I do find myself intrigued by the whole ACEO thing. Interesting way to get one's art out there.
I used a line art knot as visual reference, but other than that, it's completely hand painted in Photoshop 7.
The border's not my favorite thing, and our printer is junk lol, so I'll be taking the file up to a printer to have it printed out better.
I'm oddly kinda shy about it, lol. But I do find myself intrigued by the whole ACEO thing. Interesting way to get one's art out there.
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Ashirin, that is so elegant! Thank you for linking to this in a comment on one of mine. ACEO is a wonderful thing to get into. I'm a collector as well as an ACEO artist and to me it means never running out of wall space. I've got a micro art museum in an album right now, in six months of collecting I have things like a John Houle cougar in graphite, watercolors, oil paintings, colored pencil masterpieces, all sorts of wonderful art and some hilarious cartoons some of which are as sophisticated as the serious art in their techniques.
Your knotwork would rate right up there with them. That is beautifully done. I love the way you shaded the knotwork. The border did get cut off a bit.
If you're considering replacing your printer, it could be cost effective to save up and get the Canon Pixma MP610 -- this is both a printer and a scanner, and it functions a lot better than my old scanner for getting the yellow and yellow-green color range into my art. As a printer it absolutely rocks. A friend on eBay recommended it and I bought one, about the same time that a half dozen other serious ACEO artists bought the same model. Canon photo paper matte or gloss comes in letter size as well as 4 x 6" and the software with the Pixma MP610 does something very convenient -- if you print a 300dpi scan of your art and use the Wallet Size layout in the software, a letter size sheet of photo paper will give you nine ACEO size photo prints.
These sell well on eBay as limited editions, usually in multiples of nine for the size of the edition naturally. You sign and number them on the back and all's good. This is also a way to turn 5" x 7" artwork or larger that has the same proportions as 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" into a limited Edition series of ACEO prints. Prints are actually ACEOs. Collectors are delighted to get them. And so sometimes larger pieces can also become ACEO by how they're printed. I've had some requests for my Marbles as one.
Your knotwork would rate right up there with them. That is beautifully done. I love the way you shaded the knotwork. The border did get cut off a bit.
If you're considering replacing your printer, it could be cost effective to save up and get the Canon Pixma MP610 -- this is both a printer and a scanner, and it functions a lot better than my old scanner for getting the yellow and yellow-green color range into my art. As a printer it absolutely rocks. A friend on eBay recommended it and I bought one, about the same time that a half dozen other serious ACEO artists bought the same model. Canon photo paper matte or gloss comes in letter size as well as 4 x 6" and the software with the Pixma MP610 does something very convenient -- if you print a 300dpi scan of your art and use the Wallet Size layout in the software, a letter size sheet of photo paper will give you nine ACEO size photo prints.
These sell well on eBay as limited editions, usually in multiples of nine for the size of the edition naturally. You sign and number them on the back and all's good. This is also a way to turn 5" x 7" artwork or larger that has the same proportions as 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" into a limited Edition series of ACEO prints. Prints are actually ACEOs. Collectors are delighted to get them. And so sometimes larger pieces can also become ACEO by how they're printed. I've had some requests for my Marbles as one.