I felt like doing a feature since so many amazing works of art accumulated in my faves to be shared, but before that, a few things...

I recently became aware of the ATC (artist trading cards) movement. It's where artists produce "trading cards" of their own, according to a certain format regarding size and have their contact info on the back of the card. These cards cannot be sold and have to be traded with other artists. It's most common with traditional artists, actually, but there's no reason why it cannot be done with digital art.

One way how digital art sort of betrays the purpose of the whole thing is that it can be reproduced by the artist an infinite times if desired, which essentially lowers its value (I mean price tag, not artistic value) compared to traditional art. But that can be fixed by not sharing (and maybe even deleting once printed) the digital works that were produced for this special purpose.

Now, I really thought it was exciting idea and would be a great idea to connect with other artists, if not also advertise your work in real world. I was wondering what you guys think would be the ups and downs of it, and whether it would be achievable to create a trading network first among fractal artists and then attempt to trade with other genres as well. Obviously, trades involve at least two parties, and it just doesn't happen if only one person is interested in it So give me some feedback here, let's brainstorm and get this going if at all possible



And here is the feature I promised (non-fractal feature coming later, I don't want to distract you from the recent (and not so recent) gorgeous fractals):


as a side note... something new and exciting is waiting to happen... keep your eyes open