"Fairy Tales" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Fairy Tales".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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

Winchester Center Cemetery - Photograph

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I took those photographs at Winchester Center Cemetery in Winchester, CT this past week.

Autumn Graveyard Scenes - Photograph

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This is 2 of 3 posts of photographs that I took of gravestones at Aspetuck Cemetery in Easton, CT this past week. This cemetery is next to Center Street Cemetery, and across the street from Gilbertown Cemetery.

"Medieval Collage" - Postcard

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

This is actually the second piece I made. I didn't like the first one, so I'm not going to enter that one.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

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

"Imbolc" - Postcard

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Today is Imbolc, also known as Mid-Winter. I used words from Imbolc Rituals and Ceremonies for this piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

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

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! - Postcard

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 Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

This is my entry for this week's Take a Word challenge "Green."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16.

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

Month of March - The Book of Days

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

The images are from an Internet search.

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Imbolc / Oimelg / Brigid's Day / Mid Winter Festival" – Postcard

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

I used several symbols of Imbolc in my piece. I show Brigid driving out Winter/Darkness (snow/moon) and ushering in Spring/Light (flowers/sun). The snake that emerges from the hole is in front of her. The fertile ewe is behind her.

This is my second attempt at a piece for this theme. My first piece wasn't coming together. After a good night's sleep, the idea for this piece came to me when I awoke. I don't know if I've made a similar piece before, or if I started this idea once before but was unable to bring all of the elements together to create it and gave up, but I am very happy with how this came out. I started with the woman, and the rest of the elements followed.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

The vintage images are by the artist Walter Crane and are from the Internet Archive. (See the side of my blog for links.)


Imbolc Hymn:

Thig an nathair as an toll
   La donn Bride,
Ged robh tri traighean dh' an t-sneachd
   Air leachd an lair.


The serpent will come from the hole
   On the brown Day of Bride,
Though there should be three feet of snow
   On the flat surface of the ground.

Carmichael, Alexander (1900)
Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations, Ortha Nan Gaidheal, Volume I, p. 169