Ghosts in the Old Saloon
an ATC (artist trading card) by aisling d'art ©2005
This 3" x 5" ATC features a theme inspired by the Wunsche Bros. Cafe, which was
a saloon in the "Old West" days of Old Town Spring, Texas. It was known for hard drinking, fast living
cowboys, plus shoot-outs from the upstairs patio. Well-bred women went out of their way to avoid that part of town.
Today, the restaurant is famous for great burgers, informal and eclectic decor, and at least one mischievous ghost.
The images in this ATC include a photo that I took at Wunsche Bros. Cafe. If you are at the restaurant, ask for a (free) tour of the upstairs. You can still see the original room numbers over eight different "hotel rooms" that are mostly offices today.
The next layer is a nude (Comfy-chair 1) from my Shameless Hussies 1 CD. I altered the colors, increasing magenta and yellow to mimic sepia tinting; then I inverted the color so that it turned out a good, aged-looking blue.
Over that, I placed sections of text from the 1817 & 1819 Farmer's Almanacs (scanned, on CD) and a yellow rose from PDPhoto.org (public domain photos).
I tweaked the layers making them various levels of transparent, increased the color saturation, and added the words "Old Town Spring" in faint letters over the woman's head. All of the new text on the card is in the Rockwell Condensed font.
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As always, this image is copyrighted, but free for your personal, non-commercial use, as long as you don't alter it in any way.