ATCs: November 2006

Collage on board. Originally posted 11/1/06.

Same card, using the "Sketch: Chalk & Charcoal" filter in shades of dull blue and brick red. The hair was re-penciled for a little more contrast. Other minor adjustments. By the way: Cards which appear to have foreign lettering really have plain old English text cut up and then re-assembled.

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted 11/2/06.

Same card, run through a trio of "Artistic: Watercolor" filters. Other minor adjustments, too. To me, this filter option suggests acrylic paints more than watercolors, but your mileage may vary...

Collage on board. Originally posted 11/3/06.

The city view (early 1960s San Francisco) is filtered through the "Artistic: Fresco" option. The box and head were filtered through "Blur: Smart Blur." The floating orbs (actually from a page of tartlets, also early 1960s) were picked at with several Art History Brushes and a few other tools as well.

Collage on board, with some colored pencil added. Originally posted 11/4/06. I hated this card at first, and almost threw it away. Now it's one of my personal favorites, but I don't know why.

I worked over some of the sloppier areas with the Smudge and Clone Stamp tools first. The shell pink hue on the brush bristles in the original collage was sucked out with the Sponge tool, set on "Desaturate." That particular pink is apparently the result of the acids in old papers interacting with the gesso or polymer I use to put these things together. Sometimes it looks appropriate. Sometimes not. The truly odd thing is that usually after a year or so, it disappears from the composition and leaves the original white as it was before.

Collage on board. Originally posted 11/5/06.