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Saturday, February 2, 2019

"Nursery Rhymes Unicorn" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Nursery Rhymes."

I used a Mother Goose rhyme for this. A long time ago, I read something where some historians speculated that the word unicorn actually described a rhinoceros that people had seen, but as it got communicated along the way to others, sort of like in the game "telephone," it got misinterpreted to be a horse with a horn.

I'm still struggling with artist's block. I redid the background for this several times, and finally had to enforce my "paint brush down!" time limit rule and stop working on this. I like it, but...

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

10 comments:

Tracey@Hotchpotchcreations said...

What an interesting thought behind the Unicorn, it is indeed easy to understand how words can be misinterpreted when passed on from one to the other.
Super Sunday Art, I hope your artistic mojo jumps into action now February is finally here.
Creative wishes Tracey & Thank you for visiting me earlier.

Katrin said...

Wonderful & amazing.
Greetings Katrin

Mandy Chilvers said...

love your card Anne. lets pretend Unicorns are real... and who knows they may well be!

Kartenstempeltina said...

Wow was für ein Traum, das Einhorn ist ja super schön, liebe Grüße Bettina

indybev said...

I'd never heard the story of the unicorn and the rhnoceros. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for sharing the beautiful card as well.

Deann said...

Well I learn something everyday I always thought Rhinoceros were chubby unicorns...cute card and love your new header.

Cindy McMath said...

I really love this creative card Anne! I’m so glad you are powering through your creative block - just keep doing what you’re doing!

Lori Saul said...

Wonderful imagery as always Anne!

chrissie said...

Very clever and unusual-love the imagery

Chrissie x

Ginger said...

shall we now call then Rhinicorns ??
love your card, thank you for joining in this week.
Carol x