Celebrating Women

For Sunday Postcard Art's "celebrating women" theme - Aung San Suu Kyi

This started with an image of Zeno Frudakis's remarkable sculpture.

The hand in the foreground is that of U Win Tin, who posed for James Mackay with Aung San Suu Kyi's name written on his palm as a gesture of solidarity with his fellow political prisoner.  Her name appears in Burmese script at the bottom.

The symbols of her National League for Democracy party, the peacock and the star, are worked in as well.

Behind her is a combination of backgrounds by two of my favorite DeviantArt artists, the lotus by Susan Dubrofsky (Tackon) and the basket weave by Kimberly Crick (Enchantedgal). 

St. Patrick's Day

For Sunday Postcard Art's St. Patrick's Day challenge

The underlying text is the version copied into a 10th century Lives of the Saints now held by the national library of France of Patrick's 5th century letter to his church superiors in his native Britain.  It both presents his background and his defense against those who have objected to his demands that Britons stop their violent raids on his Irish converts.  The white text at bottom is the opening lines in modern English.

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Thanks for having a look.

Sláinte!

Silhouettes

For Sunday Postcard Art's silhouette challenge

The challenge made me remember how prehistoric artists loved working with silhouettes, too, and in the dancing light of flames from a torch or a fire or one of the little spoon-shaped fat lamps, the pictures moved wonderfully.  Not so much with a flashlight, though, eh?

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Credits:  Fun With Pictures (silhouettes), SolStock  and Cloaks (two backgrounds blended together), Open Clipart (flashlight)

Which Road?

For Inspiration Avenue's "Which Road?" challenge - A postcard about my unwillingness to discard any option in life.  Makes it difficult to make progress, yes, but.... I love a detour.

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