I really think that his year would be a great one to bring together lots of the Disney pieces since the event does take place in the Diney theme park. In previous years when Leanna and I organized these decks we had (of course based on Leanna's directions) certain themes ie.elusives etc. to work with and have pretty much covered mosr of the series...But maybe and here again LB would have to orchestrate some magic, maybe we could get Robert King to autograph a few of the joker cards and since they are shrink wrapped keep everyone is suspence! You could also include the event pieces and perhaps as Mike noted some of the new artists that are creating some interesting works. Hope this helps.

Lynda

I would suggest that we do not shut the door on  the idea of using the Disney pieces since the artist thing has been done for the past three yeatrs, and why not do something a little different using the  suits: diamonds,spades,hearts and clubs as different categories for Dianey pieces. Though I would have to think out the Alice in Wonderland since that particulat category would fit in to any of the suits!!!!!

Lynda

Vanda,

 

We used the Suits idea last year because we were doing a deck of cards to go with the Casino night theme. The year before, I did a groupings of dogs, cats, event pieces, etc.  That was the first year for the trading cards.

 

Josie volunteered to do the trading cards for HOP this year. Since she is a newer collector, she believes that there are a number of people attending who do not know all the details intimately like old timers. So she wants to use the trading cards as a learning experience.

 

She wants to put the artist on one side of the card and the figurine on the other. So when you finish getting a full deck, you might have 10 cards for each of the artists selected. There may be 4 or 5 or 6 artists chosen. Josie is giving you guys the chance to select the artists.

 

To help her make the selection, sho would like you to tell her what you like most about each of the artists you suggest.  For example the tie-in of the Disney pieces, our theme and our location for including Robert King is a good example.

 

So everyone, please give Josie reasons why your choices should be included in the list of artists.

 

Leanna 

 

 

So much chatter, such a good sign... 

 

I think the best method, rather than going with the pack of cards as that would obviously not work out to our (collectors) best advantage is that we use the Happy Families type of deck.

 

This would allow us to have as many Families; as in Artists as we want and as long as the cards showed how many cards were in the Family (1/4 or 6/19) uniformity would not matter.  Although it would probably be better to have say, seven Families with 10 cards per Family.

 

That would allow us to have the most prolific Artists in their own Family and we could then bunch together some of the lesser known Artists (who have not produced that many pieces so that their work receives attention) and a Family of Disney as well. 

 

As an idea of how this would work:- 

Peter Calvesbert 10 

David Lawrence 10 

Monique Baldwin 10 

Adam Binder 10 

Sherman Dracket 10 

Disney 10  (to include Robert King and the other 6 known artists) 

Supporting Artists 10: Mel Heald, Mark Rickets, David Winter, Ann Richmond, Julia Bharucha and Neil Eyre 

 

Personally I think we should give some well deserved publicity to the lesser known Artists who have contributed to our World of Harmony Kingdom.  We probably all know how good Peter, David, Adam and Monique are so how about showcasing some of the others as well. 

 

Bit of a long spiel this but it could help or produce a brilliant idea from someone else. 

 

Hannah

So much great chatter, so many great ideas. In the planning of these cards, it has been thought that between 60 and 70 would be the deack size. Probably 6 to 7 artists would be best.  I love the disney tie in. This deck would always be associated with this event then. Each years deck should be unique.  As Leanna said I opened the idea of this being a learning experience for newer collectors, such as myself and I am bringing all the new gal on the block excitement to this project.  I have been looking up Robert King's work and feel he should be included. I will contact LB about the possibility of getting some signed for the event. That would be something special, but I don't know yet how all those things work. 

 

What I would like to include with the artist is as Hannah suggested some of his bio that would be of interest to collectors.  Also maybe some of our favorite pieces would be fun to see on the cards.

 

Keep the great ideas flowing in, please.

 

I like the family of cards concept.  Any other opinions on this? It seems to fit into the card totals I was thinking of as well as the ability to showcase a good variety of artists and their works.

I was wondering if there was any thought given to producing and selling the deck from the previous year as was done in Phoenix with the one produced in Seattle. I am sure people would like to have a "fresh" mint deck esp since it was a regular playing deck of cards with 4 suits.. Just a thought...SAM...

Of course, I'd like to see David Lawrence featured this year, but I'd also like to see Sherman Drackett's work highlighted. We don't hear much about him, but he's a nice guy and I've liked a lot of his work.

Mar

I would love as all know to see the Robert King series but there are also the artists that we know so little about. I also thought that it would be kidda cool(kewl) to have some feedback on the cards as to the artists reasons for creating these particular pieces and side commentary. This would really help to personalize the decks.

The problem with doing decks of cards for Orlando that we used from the previous events is that Leanna would have to again reprint the decks and have them cut and shrink wrapped and this in itself is a feat all unto itself.

Lynda

PS-If ther is a call for it I am sure that it could be done,,,,,,,,

Is this discussion over? I haven't been to the site until today, for various reasons. If not over, I would like to at least a few cards on Martin Perry, for his unique vision.