♦What's Your ART? ATC Swap!♦

Can we give this a wider interpretation than just drawing, painting, collaging, etc? Although I love doing all of those things, and I love making ATC's, MY real art is my music, followed by my writing. So could I make an ATC which embraces one of those as my art?

@user3775 . What I mean by "Your ART", is that I've heard so many people say that "only handrawing", or "only collage", or "only this or that" is ART. Almost as if using stickers or 3D embellishments is a sin...and I'd like everyone to use whatever material they make their personal ART with (atleast for use on ATC's) to showcase it, and show that ART is what we as individuals see it as! But not weird and disgusting materials! Please don't make me name them people:-)

Hope that helps!

OKAY, Thanks. Out looking for gross and disgusting! Just kidding. LOL,

Lol:-)

I am so afraid about some artist, because some people get a piece paper with stamps and stick there a piece of fabric and that is art. Art for me its when you paint, draw , use collage BUT you put your feelings, make this art to be positive for someone will receive it and imagine what you were thinking when you made that. But if you get a piece paper and stickers or put a piece of fabric there without any any work its fir me is not Art in anywhere for sure.

Well...then that's your idea of art @saturner and that's fine:-) I don't like to lump everyone into one category of this or that, because art is in the eye of the beholder...and no where else. This probably means you might not be comfortable in this swap though.

When I state things like this in my swap..."Take your time though. Don't rush...think it out, and take pride in your ART", I mean exactly that! Art isn't meant to be rushed and/or barely thought out. When it is, you get results like what you've described @saturner ..and I understand, because i've received them too! That's not art. It's just a way of sending something cheap and fast, with no thought, so you can get something super nice in return...and that's not ok at all.

All I can ask, is that we be adults here (as the site requires), and only send something we would be truely happy to receive ourselves, but there again...since art is in the eye of the beholder, how do we know our partners will accept it as art? And so I ask that anyone who's not willing to accept that there are other forms of art just as worthy as the type you normally use, to please drop from this swap, because rating based on likes or dislikes is NOT ALLOWED!!!

Don't be afraid to send what you truely think art is people (as long as it's within the swap guidelines). This is not a swap where you can be rated down if your partner doesn't personally like your ATC, and I promise I'll do my best to rectify the sittuation, if anything unfair occurs!!!

Can you please give me instructions on rating?

I'll PM you with that info @kdonnerberg .

~Audra:-)