Saturday, December 24, 2011

Father Christmas Rush

I wish the quality of this was better.  Haven't had any real time to make a Christmas related piece, so this was very rushed.
This is my take on Father Christmas.  I've been playing around with my own ideas for his mythology.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2 comments:

  1. I really like the look of it. The piece has a sort of fin-de-siecle feel like you find in the later Pre-Raphaelites or Arthur Rackham (note that John Waterhouse often left the edges of his compositions "unfinished" as a nod impressionist/post-impressionist idea that art should draw attention to itself as art). The conception's actually quite arresting and the actual character seems to be a sort of Gandalf-meets-Brian-Froud's-mystics; a combination that's always welcome in my imagination. It makes me want to know more about this version of Saint Nicholas and the world that he inhabits.

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