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Saturday, August 14, 2021

"Old Age" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme was "Old Age."

I struggled with what to do for this, and finally had to enforce my "paint brush down" (time is up!) rule on myself. (I'm not 100% happy with my piece.)

I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

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

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Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number —
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you —
Ye are many — they are few.

The Mask of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

9 comments:

CJ Kennedy said...

"Old Age" as in years of life? Or as a by gone time? The latter is how I interpreted this and I found the image very hopeful. The figures moving forward. The night will change to a new day.

Lowcarb team member said...

I think the images work well together.

All the best Jan

peggy gatto said...

Very thoughtful and engaging!

David M. Gascoigne, said...

This all makes me long to read Percy Bysshe Shelley again!

bockel24 said...

lovely card, Anne, thanks for taking the challenge

Cindy McMath said...

Wonderful card Anne!

Deann said...

It's a beautiful card and wonderful Shelley.

Sandra Wright. said...

That is such a great postcard...x
There was an error on blogger when I posted my comment, so have written it again incase it has disappeared,lol.

Michele said...

i love it. xo