Embroidered Collage

I used an alphabet swap as an opportunity to play with color mixing a little, an exercise I'd been meaning to do but hadn't gotten around to.  What struck me most was that even though all the acrylic tubes claimed the colors within to be semi-transparent certain colors were much more transparent than others.  This session of playing I used no mediums.  I did keep track of the mixes and made sample dabs for my sketchbook.  Less than half of the cards are in the picture.  I enjoyed making brown and trying to tone colors down by adding the complement.  I barely scratched the surface, but at least I started.  To complete the atcs, I just used the repetition and variation of the letter shape for my creations.  Plus, the text under the paint is dictionary definitions or lists of words beginning with E.