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Four Classic Elements: 

Air

Earth 

Fire

Water

The concept of my postcard is about four classic elements Air, Earth, Fire and Water. Here in this postcard I have use Alchemical symbols which is in triangle form represent the four elements according to the ancient Greek science and philosophy. The triangle it self is supposes to give the meaning but I found it is not so interesting also it will look like meaning less for those who are unknown about the Greek ancient history so I played around with the triangle and put color to make is easy to understand for all.

Air: The triangle pointing upward and horizontal line through middle of it represent the Air according to the Greek ancient alchemical symbol. Instead of only using the one triangle I have created the many triangle without destroying the shape of the triangle. Air represents the sky, a open space. So I have use blue background to represent and used the triangle to make it look the clouds and gave them the grey color with white background. I have put the cloud on the top to make feel of floating in the air and left the space on the bottom

Earth: The triangle pointing downward and horizontal line through middle of it represent the Earth. Here I have put the triangle in the pattern because when it comes about earth we can see field, tree, which is kind of makes pattern as well. I have use dark brown, light brown and green color.

Fire: The triangle pointing upward represent the fire. I have used red and yellow with back background to give the contrast on art. I used triangle and tried to make it look like the flame of the fire, which is more understandable for everyone.

Water: The triangle pointing downward represent the water. I have used triangles to make it look like the wave because water represents the ocean and ocean got waves. I have use dark blue and the white border for triangle to make wave and blue for water.