debhart777( 173)

A Snapshot of Me:

What's Going On? Where Are My Listings?

I'm still here on eBay, but my artwork is currently being sold through the wonderful eBay store, FindFolkArt, featuring modern folk art by 21 artists from all over the world! Search on ebay ID findfolkart, or go to http://stores.shop.ebay.com/FindFolkArt and click on "Debbie Hart" to see all my offerings! Thanks so much to all of you for all your business! :-)

About Me:

My name is Debbie Hart, and I am a self-representing artist. I have been drawing and painting since childhood. I have completed several university-level art courses (roughly equivalent to a minor in art), but I am also largely self-taught. In the spring of 2006, I quit my high-tech job in Colorado, and moved with my sweetheart back to my native northern California. We have since endeavored to make our lives into a "working vacation" as much as possible, living in glorious spots up and down the coast and in the redwoods.

In the past year or so, I have finally returned to my lifelong love of creating art, and my artwork has sold in art galleries in the Russian River area. We moved south to the lovely Santa Cruz area in the summer of 2008, and in November 2008 I discovered ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) and ACEOs (Art Cards, Editions and Originals), and immediately fell in love with the concept (for more information on ATCs and ACEOs, see below).

Since then, I have made and traded numerous ATCs in online swapping groups, and currently continue to focus primarily on this intriguing small art format. The tiny size of ACEOs makes them a great way to experiment with numerous techniques and subject matter, and they are addictively fun to create! It felt like a natural next step for me to begin selling them here on eBay!

About My Art:

I started out making and selling painted silk suncatchers and scarves, but my current primary focus is hand-drawn, hand-painted small-format art, mostly ACEOs (Art Cards, Editions and Originals), highly affordable, collectible, and addictively fun tiny pieces of art measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches (64mm x 89mm). More recently, I have begun to branch out to other sizes, including 4" x 6" OSWOAs (Original Small Works of Art) and 5" x 7" pieces as well.

My artwork is often brightly-colored, whimsical, and rendered in an informal, folk-art style. My favorite subjects are nature, animals and birds, and the mystical and magical. So far, here on eBay, my focus has been animals of all kinds (especially cats, often with exotic plants and flowers!), birds, fantasy (fairies, dragons, unicorns, etc.), and abstracts, and I am always expanding my range of subjects. The media I started out using for my ACEOs were watercolors and ink, but I have now shifted mostly toward fine-art markers for their brilliant color, and their ease of use and transport. Since I love to keep experimenting, it is likely that I will expand into other media as well! I hope to offer an ever-changing variety of artwork, so stay tuned!

What is an ACEO?:

ACEO stands for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals." ACEOs are tiny, collectible pieces of art, always 2.5" x 3.5", the same size as sports trading cards. They can be rendered in any medium or style. Many ACEOs are original artworks, but artists often also sell prints (called "editions," numbered and signed) of their original ACEOs. ACEOs are based on ATCs (Artist Trading Cards; more information provided below), which, by definition, are only traded, never sold. When the worldwide general public (including non-artists) became interested in owning and collecting these mini artworks, the ACEO acronym was created (right here on eBay!) to distinguish them from ATCs, and to provide a venue for artists to sell these small, highly affordable and collectible artworks. Here are just a few great features and uses of ACEOs:

• Unique and affordable small gifts to enclose in greeting cards
  
• Wonderful, convenient art to brighten up your office or cubicle
  
• Small enough to carry in your pocket, purse or wallet
  
• You can frame them, prop them up on a shelf or table, store them in a standard trading-card notebook, display your whole collection in a tabletop basket, or even use them as dollhouse art
  
• Great conversation pieces
  
• Affordable way to own and collect the work of many different artists worldwide
  
• Excellent way to support self-representing artists
  

What are ATCs?:

Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are small pieces of art (approximately wallet-photo sized, the same size as sports trading cards) that artists all over the world create, trade with each other worldwide, and collect. The ATC movement was started in 1997 by Swiss artist M. Vanci Stirnemann, when he created 1200 small cards as part of an art exhibit, and invited the audience to make their own cards and trade them with him during the closing reception. The idea caught on, and today, artists all over the world craft these cards and participate in numerous on-line or in-person ATC "swap" events.

Some Items I'm Currently Selling:

Some of My Recent Feedback:

User:leslie.wagner( 663)  Date:Nov-13-09 22:02:20 PST Praise: beautiful! thanks as always

User:circle_dancer( 120)  Date:Oct-28-09 20:30:47 PDT Praise: Charming little picture. I appreciate it took a lot of loving effort to create.

User:quick-b-fox( 589)  Date:Oct-23-09 15:16:20 PDT Praise: 5 gold stars *****5 gold stars *****5 gold stars *****5 gold stars *****