Seeking Tips: Baseball Card Collages

[JMEnglish27]

What's the brand of clear acrylic you're using, and is it a brush on or spray?

I've been using Alene's gloss spray for the longest time and have loved the results...gives everything almost a glassy sheen - less so on card backs than fronts, but nice nonetheless.

A few fun ideas I've played with - similar to your strips, I've used a punched square tile theme quite a bit like in this Jordan piece. And not too long ago I tried the modern "relic card" thing with a couple pieces, inserting something behind plastic.

It's such fun stuff - yours are beautiful, please keep sharing your projects and process!

[todeen]

Originally Posted by JMEnglish27

What's the brand of clear acrylic you're using, and is it a brush on or spray?



I've been using Alene's gloss spray for the longest time and have loved the results...gives everything almost a glassy sheen - less so on card backs than fronts, but nice nonetheless.



A few fun ideas I've played with - similar to your strips, I've used a punched square tile theme quite a bit like in this Jordan piece. And not too long ago I tried the modern "relic card" thing with a couple pieces, inserting something behind plastic.



It's such fun stuff - yours are beautiful, please keep sharing your projects and process!

I use Golden brand, it looks something like this. My local art supply store carries it, and they were telling me how to add opal pigment to make the refractor look. It's brush on,I like the effect the brush lines give the final product.

I like your square pieces. I tried cutting parallelogram pieces a couple years ago to make stars in the background. they never came together in a perfect fit and I got so upset. I ditched it and went back to long strips.

I like the quilted look of the Jordan, and I like the Henderson. that's a cool idea to insert memorabilia. I will need to try that in the future.



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[JMEnglish27]

I'm going to have to try that gloss medium.

My very first pieces, I did on wood, and sealed them with two step bar top glaze. Talk about a volatile mix. There's nothing quite like working 6 months on something and nearly ruining it in 20 minutes with protectant!

[todeen]

update: Tiny pieces in the arms taking up all my time. But today didn't go as planned, either. It turned from a day free of responsibilities into a day of honey-do's.



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[todeen]

I finished the torso! I finished the logo! That's a huge relief! Black background should get completed lickity split. Then I'll finish with the face.

Also added a close up photo of the White Sox cursive script so you can see the 1991 pieces that make up it's color. I was happy with how it turned out!





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[todeen]

Wow



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[sportsnut25]

That, especially with the signature, is incredible!

[todeen]

Nearly finished! Need to add acrylic medium finish next, and then get it framed.



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[todeen]

Back to the grind.



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[JMEnglish27]

Beautiful!!

[todeen]

I haven't worked on Babe Ruth. I got caught up in kids youth sports. I coach my daughters soccer team, and my son played baseball. Those all ended June 1. Now it's end of school year stuff as I'm a teacher. Then I'm going to be a summer camp counselor for Camp Oasis, associated with Crohns and Colitis Foundation. I won't be starting collages until July. But! I'm trying to line up summer projects. I want to complete T206 red & green Ty Cobb, T206 Tris Speaker, complete Babe Ruth, and start Fernando Valenzuela as a trade with another artist. Here's the 12x24 outline for Ty Cobb.

Also, whoever was the artist for this card was skilled. I sketched and resketched his face multiple times. This was the best I could do.



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[todeen]

Duplicated the image today so that it can be similar for the Red and Green backgrounds. Also been cutting cards for the red background.



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[bnorth]

Originally Posted by todeen

Duplicated the image today so that it can be similar for the Red and Green backgrounds. Also been cutting cards for the red background.



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I had the artist that done my Red Cobb use all Wade Boggs 1990 Donruss cards for the background. You could use all 1990 Donruss Barry Larkin cards for the red background.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I had the artist that done my Red Cobb use all Wade Boggs 1990 Donruss cards for the background. You could use all 1990 Donruss Barry Larkin cards for the red background.

That would be a lot of Barry Larkin cards! I already bought 1989 Bowman. Their backs are red, and I was going to use 1991 Bowman for the green background. I kinda like the muted colors, I think it plays into the old/antiqued/faded idea. And 1990 Bowman is going to be for Tris Speaker T206.

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