PC Challenge Week 23~POLAND

Week 23  brings us to Poland -Once known as the Land of Rainbows? Not sure where that originated from ,but it used to be a slogan for tourism in the late 40-50's. I know when Darcy posted Poland my first thought was of Lenin and all the conflicts of wars. But since that really did not flow with my story line I did a little research. On the advice of  a  good friend; she suggested that since Pope John Paul II was from Poland maybe I could use that somehow. So I used the Pope as a starting point - found out he went to university at Jagiellonian in Krakow. He was formerly known as Karol Wojtyla and was the archbishop to Krakow. [Which happens to be the 2nd largest city in Poland & also the oldest city in Poland] Krakow(Cracow) was known as the "Royal City"of Poland for a long time. Today Krakow is home to many companies such as IBM, Motorola, GE, Delphi ,Hitachi, Philip Morris-Because there are so many universities and large companies housed there the city is considered the  national academic & artistic center of Poland.

FRONT of Card

This card was a LABOR of love & time - took almost 16 hours to do-

This was inspired by a poster done in the 1940's- I fell in love

with all the white outlines of the buildings and just was so drawn

to it I had to try to re-produce it... So after several attempts to draw it I gave

up and just went with it - The water coloring was a challenge -

Hard to get browns to look correct BUT the worse was getting the fine

white lines of the detailing- Several pens later I decided on a dip pen and here's

the end result- (the trees ,ship and banner were cut from the original card)

BACK of Card

Correspondence:

Melite,

Well since I have not heard from you in England, I decided to take a chance and write to you anyways.  It did make me feel good in a way; to know you were worried about me. I’m sorry you felt I was being secretive about my job, but in time you will understand why. Have you had any further ‘visions’ about Austria? With your permission I can ask a friend of mine to check out our  activities- So let me know.

   I’m in Kracow, Poland attending to some work investments –I'll be home soon!

Hope to hear from you soon!!

Alexander

PAGE in Book

Page in book now shows part of "The Old City" of

Krakow  today-this part of the city which is on the

UNESCO World Heritage list.

(Also done in watercolors ) Some of the famous people of Poland are shown

along the bottom of the page -Copernicus, Chopin, Madame Curie and Pope John Paul II.

Completed Page

WELL ONCE AGAIN ANOTHER GREAT WEEK

OF LEARNING AND ARTING!

OFF TO THE NEXT ADVENTURE!

Happy Creating Everyone!

Fotojoy/Joyce