"June / Blue Plaid Summer Blues" - Tag

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I created this for Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2015 - June challenge.

My tag is loosely based on Tim's, and I created it using GIMP 2.8.14.

Summer is waning here, which inspired my theme of a retro bathing beauty swimmer having the "Summer Blues" at Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

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

The font is Benjamin Franklin.

Because my artwork is digital, and Tim Holtz's challenge is intended for people who buy his products, I'm not posting this on his site.

"Robert Burns" – Postcard

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This week’s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Robert Burns Night."

I wasn't sure what to do for this, and ended up having to enforce my time limit on myself. This year I either have to declare my piece finished or abandon it, instead of spending excessive amounts of time on it if I don't like how it's coming out.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

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

On the Blizzard front, it looks like I got lucky, and the storm went further East than they originally forecast. It's still snowing, but the totals here are much less than the original 2 to 3 feet they expected. The eastern part of the state looks like it took the brunt of the storm, as far as Connecticut goes.