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Certificate of Authenticity (COA)

A Certificate of Authenticity is an official document that verifies that an artwork is genuine and created by the artist named in the document.

A well-prepared COA:

helps prevent forgery

confirms authorship

supports provenance

provides essential information for future cataloguing, resale, insurance, and exhibitions

Ideally, every artwork you create should have a COA, whether it has been sold or is simply part of your studio archive.

What is an ACEO?

An ACEO is a miniature work of art made to one fixed size — 2.5 × 3.5 inches, the dimensions of a trading card. The letters stand for Art Cards, Editions & Originals.

The definition

Four letters, one rule.

ACEO = Art Cards, Editions & Originals. It describes any piece of art created at the standard trading-card size of 2.5 × 3.5 inches (63.5 × 88.9 mm). That fixed footprint is the only hard rule — everything else is open.

An ACEO can be a watercolour, a pen-and-ink drawing, a colored-pencil portrait, an acrylic or gouache painting, a pastel, a collage, or a fine-art print. It can be representational or abstract, finished in minutes or laboured over for hours. As long as it lands at 2.5×3.5 inches, it qualifies.

Always exactly 2.5 × 3.5 inches

— same as a baseball or trading card

Here’s a little art lesson since this is a concept I think more hobby artists should know about that I literally ONLY learned in a class: ahem,

color temperature is defined as quote “describes the appearance of light on a warm-to-cool spectrum, measured in degrees Kelvin (K)”

or in simpler terms wether a color’s undertone is cooler or warmer, wether it leans more towards blues or reds/yellows.

COOL TEMPERATURES ARE NOT GRAY. If you’re trying to excuse drawing a black person as just gray by saying “oh it’s just a gray undertone” you are also plain getting your color theory wrong! Nobody has a “gray undertone” what your thinking of is a color temperature that would be COOL which is more of a BLUE undertone,

EVERY SINGLE COLOR HAS A TEMPERATURE!!! There’s a warm blue and a cool blue, there’s a warm red and there’s a cool red, there’s a warm green and there’s a cool green. There’s a warm orange and a cool orange, there are warm browns and cool browns.

(if you’re not an artist reading this and you don’t already know the basics of the color wheel, reds oranges and yellows are warm colors and blues greens and purples are cool colors.)

correct me if I’ve worded any of this wrong, since I’m not one to speak on this sort of thing publicly, or speak on any controversies on that note,

And yes, I've looked up so many videos that actually don't help me learn because I have very analytical questions that the videos won't answer. I need meaning. So...

I don't know if that's considered hands on learning (by proxy?) But, If anyone wants to help me or knows someone who would be willing, please send them my way. I'll take as much help as I can get. Just don't send me anywhere. I'm asking for help on here because I want help from people. I want to ask questions and have some answered. I do not have money for an art class right now.

References of things i'd like to draw even slightly similarly if only on paper and with no color, as well as my own art so you can help me out are below. You can ask for more drawings or more examples in DM. I will draw for someone if they want a better example. Just tell me what to draw so you can tell me what I'm missing. Ty.

Hey everyone! I'm starting a batch of art lessons from the basics all the way to intermediate. 😄 First consultation is free, and the lessons will be one x one so not class style but guidance style. 🌈 DM me for more info or use the link below!