ACEO Cards
 ACEO is the acronym for Art Cards - Editions and Originals.  It began as a method for artists to exchange and collect  art amongst themselves.  Collecting on a large scale is often costly (especially for artists) and the diminutive format caught on quickly.  Soon many cards were in circulation with more being produced daily.  It did not take long for non-artists to spot the trend and they wanted in on it, even though they could not produce cards themselves.  Some enterprising individual took the format to eBay and the ACEO market was born.
 
Today thousands of original and limited edition works of ACEO art available online and from many individual artists. 
 
From the artist's standpoint, the format is useful because it allows experimentation with various mediums, layouts, colors and subject matter without a large investment of time and materials.

 
Alaskan Miniature Dogwood 
 
 
 
 
Alaska State Bird