Saturday 4 February 2012

Postcard No 3, France ... and a decision ...

Hi there folks. Well here's my postcard for France (I'm only doing them each fortnight although that may change now). I've also decided to write my story at the end when all my postcards have been created. This is because I was fretting too much about the story and that was making me shy away from actually creating the postcard - which seems silly. So I've decided I shall try and do as many of the postcards as I can and then fill in my story later, or when something worth developing comes to me, rather than trying to force a story that I'm not happy with. Anyway, this postcard shows one of the defining images of France, the French flag and on the white stripe La Tour d'Eiffel or Eiffel Tower as it's known in English. Either side on the red and blue stripes are as many famous french painters as I could fit on there. So, as they say, Vive la France ...


It provided me with the perfect opportunity to explore, in more depth, what we'd been talking about in my art class a few weeks ago - Pointoillism, as developed by Georges Seurat. I've decided I quite like it, especially the brightly coloured paintings by Paul Signac. I'm loving this art journey of discovery.

12 comments:

  1. great idea ... naming names :-)

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  2. Oh, found some new names to explore, thought I knew most of them! :)
    Great card, it would be nice to see a card of you weekly too! ♥
    Hope the story will come together soon! I make myself go on with the story because I know it will never get there if I don't write it now! :)

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  3. As soon as I saw your card the French national anthem popped in my head! How funny!

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  4. great idea Dee to add the artists on there. I love pointillism, though it is so time consuming and I have no patience lol

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  5. That a great idea and I love the postcard. :)

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  6. Super postcard. Great that you have simplified things for yourself. Too easy getting bogged down with detail. Your postcards will speak for themselves.

    Janet xx

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  7. Good idea adding the artists. Glad you are doing the postcards.
    Jen x

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  8. Lovely postcard. I like how you used the flag and Eiffel Tower image together.

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  9. Great list of artists! Flag and Eiffel Tower so impressive with the artists names.

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  10. Beautiful card and very clever. Love the idea!

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  11. Great idea for your card, loving the addition of the writing on the flag colours xxx

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