"Stained Glass Fish" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

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

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"Stained Glass Steampunk" - Postcard

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This week's Three Muses  challenge theme was "Steampunk."

This is one of my favorite themes, but I always struggle to create artwork for it.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

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

New England Carousel Museum - Photograph

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This is 1 of 4 posts of photographs that I took at the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, CT during Connecticut Open House Day.

Stained Glass Windows - Photograph

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This is 3 of 3 posts of photographs that I took recently of Sacred Heart Church in Redding, CT.

Gothic Arch Door - Southport Congregational Church - Photograph

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This is a photograph that I took of Southport Congregational Church in Fairfield, CT this past week.

Stained Glass Windows - Photograph

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This is 2 of 3 posts of photographs that I took of the Katharine Seymour Day House in Hartford, CT recently.

"King of Cups" – Tarot ATC

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This week’s Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge #83 was "Tarot Symbols (pentacles, wands, cups, swords)."

Tarot is one of my favorite themes, and one I haven't done in awhile. But the challenge site wants hand crafted ATCs, not digital creations, so I'm not posting this onto their site, because I want to respect their rules.

The vintage images are from an Internet search, including the Library of Congress.

The font is intimacy.

Library Tiffany Stained Glass Window - Photograph

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This is 4 of 4 posts of photographs I took of the inside of the Pequot Library in the Southport section of Fairfield, CT this past week.

This is one of three Tiffany Stained Glass Windows at the back of the library, on the first floor.

Pequot Library Stained Glass Windows - Pictures

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I took these pictures of some of the stained glass windows at the Pequot Library in Fairfield CT on August 10, 2012. When I first saw the woman statue in the window, I thought it was a person inside the library, which was closed, and it startled me.

Christ Church Parish Cemetery - Pictures

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I took these pictures at Christ Church Parish, in Redding CT. I love the gravestones that have skulls on them. There is a beautiful stained glass window inside the church, but none of my pictures of it came out well.

"Stained Glass Woman Window"

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This week’s Three Muses challenge was “Windows.” This is my second creation, and is closer to the medieval stained glass window that I had envisioned making. Purely by accident, I created the woman with the appearance you see here, which looks like a style of Christmas ornament that I love but can’t remember the name of. (It’s a thin opaque milky white glass type material, usually made as angels and stars, with pseudo silver lead stained glass edging.) I had to reverse engineer the woman, to figure out how she was created, because I couldn’t duplicate what I had done the first time, to make her, and I want to be able to do this same affect again with other images. (Don’t ask how many hours that took.) Then I created the stained glass window framing around her. I’m not sure the frame looks exactly like what I wanted, but I’m thrilled about my discoveries! It was worth the time I spent on it.

Updated 14:00 EDT: The ornaments I was thinking of are capiz angels and stars. I think they are made using capezio shells.

"Stained Glass Window"

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This week’s Three Muses challenge was “Windows.” I wanted to create a medieval stained glass window, but that’s going to take more time than I have so I had to give up on that idea for the moment. I made an art nouveau style stained glass window instead. I “drew” it in GIMP. It probably looks simple, but it took awhile to create.