Time for ATC Speed Swap #4!
This month's theme: Wabi-Sabi
Sign-up dates Jun 1-15.
Mailing list announced Jun 16.
Skill level - All
Hosted by Cathy Calamas
This month your two ATCs must incorporate the Wabi-Sabi design aesthetic.
What is it?
http://nobleharbor.com/tea/chado/WhatIsWabi-Sabi.htm
"Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent.
Inspiration:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thepapergoose/208750764/
http://bethbynumartist.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html
http://serenabartonsblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/art-from-reader-of-wabi-sabi-art.html
Each month, on the 1st, we will announce a theme or technique for your ATCs. Anyone interested will have until the 15th to sign up. The list will be randomized, announced on the 16th, and you will mail one ATC directly to each of the next two people on the list. A total of two ATCs each month for the speed swaps. You don't have to sign up every month, just when you feel like it or like the theme or have the time.
We'll have brand new creative excitement each month and this will keep postage for each of us to a minimum as long as you don't make bulky ATCs. But of course that will be your choice. It's approximately $1.20 to mail internationally for one ATC in a note card envelope.
New themes will be announced on the 1st of each month.
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