ACEOs
Here's a little non-glass something I've been up to lately.
I had no idea what an ACEO is up to a few weeks ago. I kept seeing the term on Etsy, so at some point I got curious and looked it up. ACEO stands for Art Card, Editions and Originals - miniature works of art, with the only rule being their size - 2.5 x 3.5 inches (sorry if this is one of those things that everyone but me already knew).
Miniature art? I can do that! I instantly fell in love with the idea. I bought a bunch of blank cards, and I've been making miniature versions of my abstract drawings. These are so much fun! Sort of like making a focal bead, but not with glass (and not a bead). Nothing beats glass, of course, but my beloved Prismacolor pencils are a close runner-up.
I haven't decided what to do with them yet - besides make more.
I had no idea what an ACEO is up to a few weeks ago. I kept seeing the term on Etsy, so at some point I got curious and looked it up. ACEO stands for Art Card, Editions and Originals - miniature works of art, with the only rule being their size - 2.5 x 3.5 inches (sorry if this is one of those things that everyone but me already knew).
Miniature art? I can do that! I instantly fell in love with the idea. I bought a bunch of blank cards, and I've been making miniature versions of my abstract drawings. These are so much fun! Sort of like making a focal bead, but not with glass (and not a bead). Nothing beats glass, of course, but my beloved Prismacolor pencils are a close runner-up.
I haven't decided what to do with them yet - besides make more.
Hi Sarah,
How fun! My first thought was ....it looks like polymer clay sheets with all kinds of "skinner blends"! If you ever need a break from glass for a few hours, I think you'd enjoy clay. But don't take a very long break!!!!
Susan
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Thanks Susan!
I think I'd enjoy clay too. But anytime I bring it up, my glass rods start making faces at me... they are jealous guys. Maybe someday though.
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Sarah, these are fab. Couldn't you do a sort of tile collage of them and stick it on Cafe Press?
Jo x
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Thanks Jo!
I could... but no one seems to ever buy anything on CafePress... *sigh*
I'll probably be closing my shop there soon, it's kinda pointless.
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These are so beautiful Sarah!!! Looking forward to see more...
Melanie
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Thanks Melanie!
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of course you can sell 'em, or trade 'em, or perhaps a lunatic with short limbs and wispy hair could adapt them into a stained glass design...or you could hoard 'em, wallpaper your cabin with 'em, make postage stamps outta dem...look at 'em, tease people with 'em--yas, i think that's it.
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If you want to try turning one into stained glass, just say the word and I'll send it to you.
(But... wouldn't that take like a million years? I don't know much about stained glass, just a wild guess.)
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a million years may be off a bit...a million dollars might be more like it (which we could split, of course)...i will let the idea start percolating in my lumpy. wwhhheeeeeee...
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I LOVE those! I would so buy one -- you should sell them! I bought a really cool one on Ebay, and then found a glass block picture frame that fit it perfectly -- it made the perfect paperweight.
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Thanks Lori! That's a cool idea.
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Beautiful! These arose out of ATC's - the whole point of them being that they'd be traded, and never sold. Not criticizing you or anything, just laying out what it was. It was a free exchange of art, personality, etc. Then people put a price on it, and given capitalist economies, if there's a market, there you go!
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Thanks sarebear!
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Hey, Sara!
Here is Donna Kato's website and her new stuff is so much like your ATCs I had to send it to you!
http://web.mac.com/donna_kato/iWeb/Site/Home.html
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Oh wow... her work is incredible! Thanks for the link.
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Yep, sarabear is right-- it started out as ATC's or Artist Trading Cards, and they were only meant for trading, not selling. A few people starting selling them as ATCs and the artisan community revolted, so they've been given a new name (the ones that are sold, anyway), ACEO.
Yours are lovely!! I especially LOVE that last one!!
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Thanks Linda Lee!
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sarebear- it doesn't necesarily have to be because of capitalism- one of the reasons why people started making ACEO's rather than ATCs (with the only difference being that you can sell ACEO's) was that if you could only trade them, then you could only have other ppl's ATCs if you could produce some yourself, that would be good enough to trade. with ACEOs, people who can't make them but just like to collect them, can do so.
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Good point.
Thanks for saying that, now I feel a bit less guilty about wanting to sell them.
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Oh no! I didn't mean to make anyone feel guilty, although as an ATC trader I did have alot of conflicted feelings on the subject when people started selling the ATC's, which may be why you can see both sides in my original comment, lol!
That last comment is a really good point I hadn't realized.
For me as a trader, it makes me feel that I'll never get alot of work I love, by trading, though.
Then again, I can always buy it! See, you can see my conflicted feeling both ways coming out again.
But that's just ME; these Sarah's made are beautiful; see some absolutely also beautiful work done in paint, HERE>">http://blog.mandybudan.com">HERE> (Mandy Budan's blog)
I like it for the same reason I like Sarah's work; such innovative use of style and color; such different ways of looking at things! Such beauty, too!
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woops. I think HERE">http://blog.mandybudan.com/">HERE, actually. I hope this one works!
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dagnabbit. I know how to do the html for that, and that IS the blog addy! putting www. in front of the part after the // doesn't get you to the blog. urgh.
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Her work is awesome! I just bought one of her ACEOs.
Thanks for the link!
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