Welcome back,

please excuse this rather late and short chapter. I've had, may I say, my fair share of real life things to deal with this month, so it's a tight end. Nonetheless, I still owe you a postcard and I deliver.

Actually, this month's postcard looks more like a coloured sketch. I tried to darken it enough for a night scene nd might have overdone it. Maybe I can find some time to rework that digitally. For the motive I chose a character loosely inspired by a Russian fairytail about the Frost's Bride. She's a Cinderella type of character, virtuous yet unloved by her people, and her stepmother chooses the Frost as her groom. So she is led to a fork in the way before dawn and there awaits him. She freezes, but denies it to him as to be polite. He has sympathy, gifts her a beautiful warm coat and sends her back home. Her non-as-virtuous stepsister then gets to do the same, but she complains about the cold and freezes to death. Lovely.
I chose a high contrast between the cold blue scene and the gown and adornment which stand out as colourful, optimistic, lovely - like coloured leaves before they part with the tree and fall to the ground. Maybe this character is a gifted bride of the frost, maybe she is a mythical sunrise allegory waiting for the night to end and join her groom, the day. Maybe she even has a sister. Maybe that would be the sunset, who wears a widow's attire and says goodbye to her husband, the night, who is in another spiritual sphere or something.
And maybe I've got new piece of mythology for one of my projects now.

On another note: This was the very last sheet of postcard watercolour paper. The last two month's postcards are going to be the cutout paper and the block's cardboard backside. Hurray!