"Happy Birthday Cake" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Make Me A Cake", because it's Deann's birthday this week. Happy Birthday Deann! And thank you for doing the Muse challenge.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

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

"Typewriter Death" - Postcard

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

This piece is unconventional and late.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.18.

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

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Agnus Dei - Midsomer Murders TVST - Track 2 (Death of a Hollow Man)

Paint It, Black - Ciara

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones

Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black.

Month of Feb - The Book of Days

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I created a Hearts Love theme art journal page for the Month of Feb page for the weekly planner/journal that I'm using for my Book of Days. Unfortunately it printed out darker than I expected it to, so I've included the original image.

This is also my entry for the following:

Moo Mania challenge of "Love is in the Air."
Try It On Tuesday challenge of "Romance."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

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.

"Strawberry Fantasy" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Fruit and Vegetables."

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

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

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Summer Solstice / Full Strawberry Moon - Photograph

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These are some photographs that I took of the Summer Solstice Full Strawberry Moon last night.

I could not believe my good luck. I had gone to a location, but the moon was nowhere to be seen, and it was past its rise time of 8:31pm local time. I drove to a nearby location and saw the moon on the horizon, and it was red! Crowds had gathered, and I almost couldn't get a parking place. Once I did, I ran out onto the beach to get some photographs before the moon lost its color. The sand gnats were numerous and unrelenting, but I persevered.

In the end, none of my photos came out crisp, but I'm posting a few anyway. The moon was stunning, but my photos don't do justice to its true color. I took these photos shortly after the sun had set at 8:29pm, but prior to the end of civil twilight, which ended at 9:03pm. (Note: in the second photo, both the moon and moon reflection were pink/red, but the moon looks white.)

"Strawberry Girl" - Postcard

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

This is 1 of 3 posts of strawberry themed pieces that I made. See also: Postcard 2 and Postcard 3.

I "painted" the leaves in the background.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

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

"Strawberry" - Postcard

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

This is 2 of 3 posts of strawberry themed pieces that I made.

I "painted" the raspberries and leaves in the background. I also added ink splats and gold flecks.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

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

"Summer Picnic" - Postcard

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

This is 3 of 3 posts of strawberry themed pieces that I made.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.14.

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