26 Out Of Africa ATC's

The last couple of months had been pretty rough. My puppy had needed pretty serious surgery and it had worn me out. I was needing a change of pace. I have always wanted to participate in an ATC Trade project and one was just starting. The theme was to be Out of Africa.

I decided to do Animals for my series, and incorporate some fun things I had been learning to do with Acrylics like Scraffito, where you paint one layer, let it dry, and then paint a second over it and make scratches through to the first layer. You have to move quickly on this with acrylics as they dry so fast. But it is really fun. I also used a limited color palette that I felt kind of represented African colors.

So for the entire month of December I produced 26 - 2.5" x 3.5" miniature paintings. The irony being they take as long to paint as a much bigger one, so I didn't get a lot of other work done during the month. Here is a sampling from the group:

Baboons At Play

Tuesday's Child (Impala)

South African Jewel (Bushveld)