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All artwork posted on ACEO must be 2.5 x 3.5 inches, but can be created in any medium. No sexual content or nudity please. Members please limit your daily photo postings to no more than 4 pictures.

I'd like to extend a welcome to all of our new members, which includes each and every one of us! We are a growing and very interesting group here on Eons and I am looking forward to even more growth. I thank each one of you for your encouragement and inspiration. We seem to be gathering creative energy from each other and that's as it should be. Please welcome our latest new member Paulines. She's an wonderful artist and has had real experience with art cards.

Part of the love I have for Artists Cards is collecting them, but what I enjoy the most is painting them. They are perfect for me in that way. Like the rest of you, I'm constantly busy with never enough creative time. As artists, we are naturally limited by the size of ACEOs in how long we can spend on one.
Artists always have ideas floating around in our heads waiting for time. Time to get our art supplies out, undisturbed time when we will be able to concentrate on our project and time to complete this wonderful concept we've been carrying around with us as we go about the rest of our lives.
This is where ACEOs are perfect. We can begin and complete our creative project in minutes, not days or weeks. For me it is something I enjoy and can feel good about, not a chore that I have to finish some day. I'm not very disciplined, so I have a huge stack of those, do you? I love taking some of these pictures I have in my head and putting them on paper. I love the feeling of completion I get with artists cards and knowing I can put my completed project at a small price into the hands of collectors who will enjoy them, too. I think many of these concepts I carry around with me in my head would make great or at least pretty good, full sheet or half sheet watercolors. I also know myself well enough to know that I will never paint them in those sizes. I have a lot of ideas and I enjoy turning them into paintings, very small paintings.

If you notice in the upper right hand corner of the page you will find "Search Eons" where you can find about anything on Eons. However, if you search for ACEOs you won't find them from photos from our ACEO group unless you've used ACEO in the title. So...you might want to keep that in mind when you are putting in the title for your work. Instead of saying "Spring flowers" you might want to type "Spring Flowers ACEO" so it will be brought up in the search. You may also want to go back into your photos from your profile page and change the names of your ACEO to include the relevant information.

Please post photos in albums or First Reply rather than in your message. For those of us who have high speed internet it's easy to forget that there are stilll lots of folks who are still on dial-up and posting pictures in the messges really causes problems for those members. And not everyone has the latest in high speed computers or fast ISP's.
So..all said, we need to post our photos in the Photo albums or in the First Reply. Whether we post in the group album or create an ablum of our own the photos added to it will show up on our ACEO home page at the bottom that day so the limit of 3 a day still applies to our own abums. It just makes easier to look them up by member without going through all the photos in the group album.

ACEO's are a perfect way to collect original artwork. As collectors, we don't always have the space to put larger paintings or the money to buy larger works. Collecting Art Trading Cards is a pretty frugal way to amass a collection or original art. They are even cost effective when it comes to framing and they look wonderful when displayed in a grouping.
ACEOs are great. I like to look at them, hold them, own them and hang them on my walls even it's one that I've done myself, but especially when it's been created by another artist. I really enjoy having other artists paintings and have many of them on my walls. These are not all large works and certainly not always their best paintings, but they are real. The artist has touched it, thought about it, been personally involved with every decision it took to produce the piece and I can feel the creative energy in their artwork. I have never felt that way about a print.
ACEOs have allowed me to add to my meager collection of original art and I treasure each one I have. I have one wall in my home set aside for small format art. The largest piece I have in this group is a12x16, a few are 8x10 or so, but most are ACEOs, which fit in beautifully with these other small paintings and give some variety and interest because of their size.
I'm far from being the only one who enjoys these small artworks. There are many of us who are adding to our collections of original art by buying these small format pieces, collecting the works of our favorite artists and displaying them creatively. Art trading cards make it possible for many people to amass a collection of original artwork and we will enjoy the miniature pieces of art we have collected for years to come.

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Lets show them what we are up to!

Hi everyone - If you have some energy to spare after all the Thanksgiving shopping, preparing, cooking, eating and cleaning up............ Ebay is having their annual Cyber Monday Sale. I received an email from artistjillian (Jillian Crider) of our group here reminding me. If you have some ACEOs to list, be sure to type Cyber Monday in the title of your listing. Go to Ebay and search for Cyber Monday to see examples of listings. Not too many so far but I think most people wait to list on Sunday nite.

I plan to take a few of my ACEOs to a consignment shop just to see if I can spark some local interest. Do any of you have any ideas as to the best way to display them? I have put them in little wooden frames, but I'm not sure that's the way to go. That will help to keep them from being damaged, but I wonder if the buyer needs to see the signature and the date on the back?

Most of the people that I speak to around here have never heard of ACEOs so I'll need to set up a display to explain what they are. It would be nice if I had work from other artists to display, but I don't have access to cards from other artists. I guess I could buy a few from some of you then mark them up and sell them so there will be more to choose from. I wouldn't make any money at all from those...probably won't make any money period since this is a very small town, but I would like to take a stab at getting people to start collecting. There won't be much to collect if I'm the only artist available.

Any ideas or insight that any of you have to share would be greatly appreciated.

Virginia, I know you sell ACEOs on Ebay. I'm thinking I will purchase one or two of yours because they are beautiful, and I won't be disappointed at all if they don't sell.
I'll happily keep them for myself.

Do any of the rest of you sell ACEOs online? If so where? I've got some shopping to do.

Hey all you November babies -- Happy Birthday. Its great to see so many people sharing my birth month.