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Showing posts with label Hot Air Balloon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hot Air Balloon. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

"Desperate Daphne" - Postcard

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This week's theme at My Soul's Dark Imagination was "Desperate Daphne".

Note: I didn't realize this meant the Apollo and Daphne myth until the challenge went live, so I won't enter this there.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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

Sunday, September 15, 2024

"Hot Air Balloon - SPA Host" - Postcard

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This week I have the honor of guest hosting Sunday Postcard Art, and I chose the challenge theme "Hot Air Balloon."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

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

Sunday, November 12, 2023

"Little Boy Blue And The Man In The Moon" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Man in the Moon".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

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

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And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

"Man In The Moon" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Man in the Moon".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

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

Featured in the weekly sampler.

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Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
You know the night's magic
Seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight
Seems to shine in your blush...

Moondance - Van Morrison

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

"Balloon Ride" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Up, Up And Away".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

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

Monday, August 7, 2023

Hot Air Balloon - Week 33 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was Hot Air Balloon.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

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

The master index for all of my entries is here.

Friday, August 5, 2022

"Fly Me To The Moon" - Postcard

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I'm in the process of going through my UFO (UnFinished Objects & Projects) pile to complete them or throw them into the scrap heap. This is a fragment.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32.

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

Friday, January 21, 2022

"Balloon Wars" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.30

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

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I would not have believed this news story was true, except the New York Times said it, so it must be true. The New York Times is reporting that in March 2017, the United States Government bombed the Tabqa Dam in Syria, despite it being on their ""no-strike" list and the risks of such an attack killing tens of thousands of people." Shortly after that bombing occurred, the US Government stated that claims by ISIS, Syria, and Russia that the US had done the bombing were "crazy reporting". So the United States Government lied to We The People in March 2017 AND dismissed any claims that they were responsible for that bomb attack as, effectively, conspiracy theories / misinformation / disinformation. But thankfully Big Tech / Social Media censor information that the US Government tells them is misinformation / disinformation.

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Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.

Nights In White Satin (full version) - Moody Blues


Lies lies lies yeah
Twisted truth and half the news

Lies - Thompson Twins


This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Red Balloons - Nena

Saturday, June 24, 2017

"Zeppelin" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Zeppelin."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

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

I used G'MIC filter Arrays & tiles - Tiled normalization on this.

Sunday, May 28, 2017

"Hot Air Balloon Fairy" - Postcard

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I made a hot air balloon themed piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

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

The words in the background are from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

"Eyes" - Postcard

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This week's Three Muses challenge was "Eyes".

I created this using GIMP 2.8.18.

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

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

"Paris" - Postcard

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This week’s Three Muses challenge was "Flying."

I started with the idea of wanting to use a Hot Air Balloon. Then I decided to add a couple who were kissing, which led to a Paris based theme, for the City of Love. Paris is also the City of Light (La Ville Lumière), and the location of the historic Paris Catacombs, etc.

I will refrain from stating what I think of the cowards who recently attacked civilians in Paris.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16 (the latest version, to which I just upgraded).

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

Friday, July 10, 2015

"Boys" - Tag

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This week’s Tag Along challenge #96 was "Boys."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

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

Sunday, July 5, 2015

"Summer Dreams" - Postcard

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This week’s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Roses."

Once again, I struggled to come up with something.

The words are from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date


I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

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

The font is HarabaraHand Italic 

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Month of February - The Book of Days

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I created a Valentine theme art journal page for the Month of February page of the weekly planner/journal that I'm using for my Book of Days.

The images are from a DuckDuckGo search.

The master index for all of my entries is here.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

"Circus Girl" – Postcard

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This week’s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Life is a Circus."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.10.

The vintage images are from a DuckDuckGo search.

The words are from the song "The Impossible Dream."

The fonts are Lindsey and Pescadero.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

"Flugpostkarte" - Postcard


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This week’s Collage Obsession challenge was "I can fly."

I created another Mail Art piece using vintage Hot Air Balloon / Aeronautical images that I found with an Internet search.

The fonts are Kelmscott Thin and Gentium Basic Bold.

Friday, March 22, 2013

"Hot Air Balloon" – Postcard


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This week’s Three Muses challenge was “Balloons.”

I created another Mail Art piece using vintage Hot Air Balloon / Aeronautical images that I found with an Internet search.

The fonts is HandTIMES.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

"Flight" - Postcard


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This week’s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Hot Air Balloons."

This is also my entry for this week's Collage Obsession challenge, "Dream or Goal." I may have a dream come true soon, but I haven't passed all of the "wickets" yet, so I can't say anything more than that it involves being airborne. (Unfortunately I was too late to enter the challenge.)

This is also my entry for this month's So Artful Challenges theme "Monochromatic or Red."

All of the images are from an Internet search.

I would also like to share with everyone pictures I took while spending Hallowe'en in Salem Massachusetts.