Does Mood Influence Your Art?

ACEO/Miniature Painting 

People have asked me do you have to be “inspired” to paint and I usually say no but mood does influence the subject matter in front of me.   Painting or constructing art is a process of searching and researching in my mind and environment until I’m ready to say it with paint… 

This ACEO was a happy thought regarding a day at the Carnival but it’s been raining and cloudy the miniature painting is a little more moody and impressionistic...  So did the rain and my mood affect the painting?  Yes, I think so...

Original Miniature, Small, and ACEO Paintings

This treasury is a gallery of miniature, small format, and aceo original paintings. Most of the work is created by Etsy Team members of the Finding Fine Art Team, Fine Art Friday Team, and participants of the First Friday Art Walk on Etsy sponsored by Art Walk Etsy Team.

Small format art and ACEO's are a great way to start an art collection. You can experiment with different styles, mediums, and subject matter. The artwork is affordable and takes up minimal space.

ACEO Original Ink Mini Zen Painting

This ACEO (2 1/2" X 3 1/2")is another respectful nod to the Asian brush art forms with a California twist.... I love the organic qualities of ink and paper. The little gold like flecks give this mini painting texture and warmth.

The surface of this painting is "rice paper" inorder to protect the paper and bring out the ink it's mounted with a cellulose adhesive. (It's like wallpaper paste.) The tricky part is not destroying the paper. See available art in my Etsy Shop.

ACEO, Miniature Acrylic Landscape Painting

What is ATC (Artist Trading Cards) and ACEO (Art Card Editions and Originals)?

The simple explanation is they are miniature art works the size of baseball cards at 2 ½" X 3 ½.” The cards are made in a variety of subjects, substrates and art media but the size is uniform. The ATC’s are usually exchanged but not sold. ACEO’s are traded, collected and sold. (Click the following url and find thousands. http://tinyurl.com/yfyel5r )

Creating an ACEO has the same amount of effort, standards and commitment but for me, I think a little punch of fun and whimsey goes into the work. As an artist you know the collector/viewer is going to be much more intimate with their ATC or ACEO because of its size. You hold it in your hand versus stand three to ten feet away. You smile, giggle and connect with the artwork much more readily. Perhaps that’s the reason I’m fond of small format art.

Connecting, it’s all about bringing the work, artist, and viewer/collector together even if it’s only the size of a baseball card