Inchie Swap 2024
I’d like to invite you to the Inchie swap 2024! - Make 20, Get 20!
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My goal is to inspire my high school art students and challenge them to participate in this swap with local and professional artists. Invite others to participate too! Join us in some creative exploration!What is an inchie? Inchies are a 1” little window into your creative brain. This is your space to be creative, play, doodle, build, experiment, you decide. How does the swap work?
For each Google Form Inchie Swap commitment, You will need to make 20 good Inchies to swap. Make 20, Swap 20, Get 20 different ones back!Want to do more than 20?
You are welcome to participate as many times as you can commit to! Just complete a Google Form for each color commitment. Details:Last day to sign up: January 21st, 2024Deadline to mail inchies out to me: April 15th, 2024Date inchies are mailed back to you: May 5th, 2024The Theme: Rainbow
Monochromatic ++++++++Guidelines:- Must be one-inch square (each piece) - Use media of your choice or mixed media (collage, paint, pen, stamping, book text, typing, stamping, handwriting, etc)- Please mount on tagboard, posterboard or cardstock. - Finished edges are preferred (use sharpie, ink pad, gold leaf pen, paint, etc)- Use your best craftsmanship. Honor yourself and others with your best effort- Sign the back of each square. (add your name, email, website and/or Insta)- Please let me know if it's ok or not ok to publish your inchies on this blog, on Instagram, etc. How it works:You will send me 20 inchies and I will send 20 back to you from a pool of players. You will receive one of your inchies back plus 19 more from other people.Plan ahead, Last day to mail to me is April 12th so I get them by April 15th.Include $3 in cash or stamps for the return package postage.I will reuse the bubble mailer you send them in.
Want to know how to start?
The goal is to have fun and be creative.
Everyone approaches theirs a little differently.
This is how I usually make mine!:
Rummage through your scrap artwork. Do you have something you can use and build from that is already on thick paper? Painted paper? Old watercolors? Collage scraps? If not, get a 9x12 piece of cardstock, posterboard, matboard or thick watercolor paper. But not too thick since you’ll need to cut it down.
Revisit the theme(s). Get inspired. Play, layer, collage, make marks, scratch, weather surfaces, you decide.
Once it has dried, Cut it down into 1” squares. I cut way more than I need so I have extras.
Lay out your pieces. Evaluate them and start to see them for little works of art.
Pick our your favorite 20+ and focus on those.
Now what can you add? More paper, pen, stamps, sandpaper, marker, quotes?
Start adding notes, marks, patterns on each one. Make them all unique or repeat as you would like.
Take a sharpie, ink pad or paint pen to all the edges to make them feel complete.
Add your name, date and maybe insta to the back of each one. Sometimes you can print a sticker sheet small for each and cut them to fit.
Tips!:
Use layers
Use a variety of mark-making
Use scraps
Add words?
Experiment - try something new
Be Imperfect.
Take risks!
You decide
