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P U T T I N G T H E A R T I N T R A D E Issue 23 - Summer 2014
The Frida
Issue!
DRAWING
STICK
FIGURES
Really!
FRIDA
RAG DOLL
Skull & Roses
Pin Toppers
Amigurumi
FRIDA
KAHLO

Altered
Bingo Balls
Cover art by Ann D’Angelo
ATCs, Altered Art, Art Journals, Chunky Books & Creative Inspiration
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Table of Contents
SUMMER 2014
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3 ArtTrader Mag Contributors
4 Letter from the ArtTrader Team
5 Beach Ladies: Poses through Stick
Figures
7 Ideas for Architecture: AKA Cute Little
Whimsical Houses
12 Gallery: In celebration of Frida
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15 Frida Kahlo: An Easy Amigurumi
Pattern
19 Skulls & Roses Pin Toppers
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23 Musings of a Self-Trained Artist: A
Laywoman’s Laycolumn
WRITING & ART TEAM Ann D’Angelo
Andrea Melione
27 Online Workshop: Creating with
Sal Scheibe
Intention
Sarah Trumpp
28 Walk-Through: Frida in Mixed Media
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31 Altered Bingo Balls
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34 Frida Kahlo Rag Doll General Inquiries: Sal Scheibe
[email protected]
40 Online Workshop: Mixed Media Goth
Submissions
Girls [email protected]
Product Reviews: Sal Scheibe
41 Advertisements
[email protected]
44 Submissions: Call for Art & Articles Critique Corner: Andrea Melione
[email protected]
OPEN Call for Entries
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ArtTrader Mag Contributors
Sal Scheibe works as a freelance illustrator and creative designer. Sal is always
working on new art and paintings for her Etsy store as well as a couple of online
comics that will be appearing in the Spring of 2014. She also enjoys trading
ATCs, working in Decos from around the world and sharing art with others.
Sal’s favorite artists and illustrators include Joe Sorren, J.C. Leyendecker,
William Bougereau, Norman Rockwell and John Singer Sargent. Her favored
mediums are acrylic paint, colored pencils and markers.
www.slscheibe.com | SLSlines.etsy.com | redzombies.blogspot.ca
Ann D’Angelo (right in photo) is having one of those lives with a lot of spontaneous
left turns. She started out teaching English at Boston University, and after a
lengthy detour through corporate America, she is now making art in Central
Indiana, where she lives with her husband, son, and more than her fair share of
puppet heads. Most of Ann’s work involves altering found objects with paint and
(lately) epoxy clay, but she loves mixed media and is determined to become
way more awesome with acrylics. You can find her at www.wonderstrange.com
and wonderann.etsy.com.
Andrea Melione (aka EraserQueen) has a B.S. in Arts Management and is
doggedly pursuing a Masters in Public Administration. She has been involved
in Mailart for ten years and is the co-founder of IllustratedATCs.com. She is a
contributor to ArtTrader Magazine where she is a graphic designer and author.
She mainly works in watercolor, colored pencil, acrylics, markers and gel pens.
Her work has been in four exhibits, though two were academic and she isn’t
sure if that counts enough to sound cool.
eraserqueenstudios.blogspot.com
Sarah Trumpp (aka themuppet) has never seen the inside of an art school and
is making it up as she goes along. She lives in a teeny town in the wilds of New
York with her husband, kids, and fish, and dreams of being an evil overlord. She
has been an active participant in the Mailart world for the past four years, and
she works primarily in acrylics, watercolors, colored pencil, marker, ink, clay,
paper mache, yarn, felt, bone, wire, and glass. She obviously needs to reign it
in a bit.
wonderstrange.com | wonderstrumpet.blogspot.com
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Summer 2014 Issue
Welcome to the Frida Summer issue! In celebration of Frida’s July birthday, we thought
we’d bring your a Frida focused issue! Frida was such a unique woman and a wonderful
artist and we wanted to share lots of Frida style projects with our readers. We have the
coolest little rag doll Frida by Sarah Trumpp and an adorable amigurumi Frida created by
Ann D’Angelo. Sal Scheibe brings in a mixed media Frida portrait on illustration board.
Our next issue brings our favorite season of all - Halloween! Expect to see a lot of zombies,
witches, monsters and funky pumpkins. We’ll have lots of darkly themed projects for everyone.
Send us your Art!
Remember, we also want to feature your artwork! Send it to us! If we receive enough
artwork, we’ll create a Reader’s Gallery and show it all off. Please check out the last page
of each issue for submission guidelines as well as our website for details. Upcoming art
themes are below.
Want to write for us? We always welcome guest contributions! We actively seek them in
fact! And again, please check out the last page of each issue for submission guidelines
as well as our website for details. Or feel free to use our contact form and send off your
proposal to us.
Andrea Melione Ann D’Angelo Sal Scheibe Sarah Trumpp
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Beach Ladies
With Andrea Melione aka Eraserqueen
Summer is HERE! Time for sun, sand, and fun.
The following is a walk-through of how I draw
figures. I use a “stick figure” method, where I
create a basic stick skeleton of the pose.
I recommend warming up a little by drawing
fast and loosely. Stick figures are best when
drawn quickly, to capture gesture, and with less
attention to accuracy.
Here are some basic stick figures of a volley-
ball player, a hesitant Victorian bathing beauty,
and a 60s beach party girl getting splashed
by waves. I drew about ten stick figures (fairly
quickly) and these three were my three favor-
ites.
In the second sketch, I have added the muscle
groups, and created outlines. It is at this stage
where I do the most refining; I draw/erase, draw
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Andrea Melione is a Whimsical Folk Artist, who loves to teach and share her techniques with others.
You can purchase her workshops on ETSY:
www.etsy.com/shop/EraserQueenStudios
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Ideas for Architecture
AKA Cute Little Whimsical Houses
By Sal Scheibe
Cute little houses are so much fun to draw and they’re
simple once you master a few tricks. It all has to do
with patterns and shapes. Patterns are everywhere!
On every building we see. Some patterns stick out like
a sore thumb while others are subtle and quiet. But
every building will have elements of style and pattern,
even if it’s the repeating pattern of bricks or perhaps
even a simple series of 3 windows in a row.
Some buildings, especially Victorian and Gothic have
incredible patterns and style elements that stand out
and make us take notice.
These repeating design patterns on buildings
help to form a cohesive whole. A building
would likely look pretty silly if the windows
were all different sizes or the bricks were
laid in a haphazard method. Patterns provide
continuity and in whimsical art, they often
provide the “whimsy.” We’re not restricted to
straight lines or squares and rectangles. Our
repeating whimsical patterns can be applied to
buildings as well as flowers, trees and people.
At left you can discern the simple patterns in
these apartment and office buildings. While
the more modern cityscapes tend to use a lot
of squares and rectangles, interesting patterns
can emerge.
A good exercise is to take your travel
sketchbook and look for these patterns in your
neighborhood on houses and big building.
Sketch the patterns out in a sketchbook and
use them on future ATCs or in your art journal.
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Older buildings and houses are
filled with patterns. On the building
above, I’ve picked out patterns
from the roof, from the iron-work,
from the wood edging and from
the door - and there’s even more
to pick out. There are patterns in
the windows, the bricks, the light.
They’re everywhere if you look.
Many beautiful whimsical
houses can be made
from the standard shape
of square/rectangle with
triangle on top. It’s not
necessary to go all out
and make lots of strange
shapes or designs for
whimsical houses. I have
some amazing art with
the basic shapes. So
don’t worry about creating
something fancy if you’re
new to drawing. Fancy can
come later. What’s most
important are the patterns,
colors and whimsical
elements. Those things
are going to make even the
most basic house stand out.
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If you’re ready to move beyond the standard house shape, I’ve drawn out a few ideas for some
inspiration. Houses can come in all sorts of themes such as cupcakes, tree houses, coffee cups and
mugs, shoes and boots, etc. Let your imagination be the guide!
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Whimsical Cityscapes
The fun thing about whimsical cityscapes is that they’re easy! As you can see above (and below with
the girl), cityscapes need only be simple shapes of squares and rectangles and they can still look good.
Start off with a few rectangles and add in different sorts of window shapes.
To create a more crowded city, add in more building
behind the front buildings. Draw different windows and
patterns so it’s easy to tell the buildings apart! As you
can above, drawing a simple whimsical cityscape can
be very easy!
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