This one’s a little obscure outside Scandinavia. It’s a greeting for St. Lucia Day, which opens the Yuletide celebration in countries from the Netherlands to the Baltics. Traditionally, the eldest daughter of the family wakes early on December 13, dons a white dress with a red sash, and a wreath of lingonberry boughs and candles. She sings to wake the rest of the family, who then join her for a breakfast of buns and coffee. The candles refer to the fire which failed to consume Saint Lucy, and also offer a welcome glimpse of light in the middle of long, dark Scandinavian winters.
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Christmas Island red crab eating a green leaf. Taken with Canon 5D and 100-400mm lens.
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To Be Entered into the Cute and Creepy Competition Little Susan begged her Nana for the beautiful doll she saw in the window of the small store at the edge of town. At first her Nana said no, but on Christmas Eve Nana could not resist journeying back to the little shop for the doll.. Susan had wanted it ever so badly. And now the doll it sits under the tree waiting for Christmas morning…
I thought this would make an attractive Christmas card for a cat lover. / A beautiful Maine Coon waiting to be kissed under the miseltoe. Acrylic on canvas
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This handsome orange tabby cat, loves Christmas because of the catnip mouse, Santa always left him in his stocking. / Jamie Wogan Edwards
I’m dreaming of a cabaret style Christmas. And Candy is just perfect for it. :)
In my series; Painting the Masters, at Shipley art gallery. This one is Lamesley, a little hamlet just outside Gateshead. / By J.A. Dees. A local unknown artist, from an indeterminate time. Watercolour 16” x 12”
This is not a black and white world. / To live, the color must be swirled. / . / .
Long exposure of Christmas lights while moving this camera around! / MY BUBBLESITE
In his sumptuous exploration of food images (Food in Painting), Kenneth Bendiner states, that ” food for the art historian can be the one area where conscious rules and dignified ideas need not hold sway - the real urges and concerns of a painter or his society can rise to the surface. There’s a certain freedom in the margins of art - where experiments and indulgence can operate—in other words more can be learned about someone from his backyard, than from the street façade of his house.” The latest painting from the series” Delicious” is “Scone with Berries and Cream. The Berries are a type of black berry, available all year round here… Watercolour on Arches Paper…Featured in Happy Haven… I grew up in a society where tea time was sacrosanct… dashing into the house after school, at four o’clock in the afternoon straight to the table which tea was laid, was an everyday thing… the weather was hot and the tea was refreshing… after several cups, one felt at peace with the world. Clotted Cream came from England in jars or tins but my mother also whipped up a wonderful cream from the top of the milk that came straight to our home from a neighboring farm every day…dinner was much later on in the evening ... You and I are great souls. / And we come together for a time. / We meet over a cup of tea here on earth. Shall we leave our shell and join with each other? / Shall we put down our shield and armor? / What will become of us if we do? / What horrible fate awaits us if we are defenseless? Tea is a time for love and tenderness without fear. / It is a time for sharing and learning and growing. / Come now, leave the battle gear behind. / Brave with me and let’s have tea. E.Grey Watercolour on Arches Paper.. One day through a half-shut gate / in a courtyard, there among the trees, / we can see the yellow of the lemons; / and the chill in the heart / melts, and deep in us / the golden horns of sunlight / pelt their songs* The strawberry is rough like a slave’s arduous life / Vermillion, green, and fuzzy like an inscripted pathway / It tastes like the first candy bar in a child’s life / It looks like a cold soda on a hot summer day / Sounds like the Sirens decepting voice. (Click images to link) Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, / Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum / In the cavernous pail of the first one to come! / And all ripe together, not some of them green / And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen ...
Digital finger painting (with a mouse), completed through the wee small hours. I’m having trouble sleeping, too many images in my head. Even when I’m asleep, I’m drawing in my dreams. I’m having so much fun experimenting with digital, it’s a new medium for me and I just love it. FEATURED in ‘Creative Cards’ August, 2009 / FEATURED in ‘Lifeline’ August, 2009 /
1 sale so far / Little Profiles Christmas Series / You can get the whole series in the Little Profiles 2010 Calendar now available / / ... Troubled Xmas Tree - / the day after Xmas was always an anti-climax / and Tiny blamed herself, thinking it must be kharma / for not having glittered brightly enough on Xmas Day ... - pen drawing on a slip of scrap paper when far too tired doing silly doodles at 2am – strange thoughts creep in like this one … welcome to Little Profiles – a new series Others in the Little Profiles series: /
Another Christmassy idea. Watercolour and gouache on Whatman rough paper
/ / Vintage Christmas / / Forest / / Reindeer Dreaming Pencil drawing on brown paper, coloured digitally I’ve been out looking for Christmas cards and not finding much out there that I liked, I made this little card in a vintage style, for all the girls that love vintage stuff and wanna give their girlfriends Vintage Christmas Wishes just tried to make something I’d like to give my friends really and the face and hair are a lot like me (although my eye colour is brown) This design also comes without the text, please let me know if you’d prefer that option.
Close-up of a red/white Gerbera flower on a black background. Photographer: Thea Walstra / /
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