John Piper: Design for a Christmas card
John Piper also used to design stained glass windows and wrote a book that is still recognised as a go to piece of writing when people are considering how to evaluate any new stained glass installations. As stained glass is one of those image tropes associated with Christmas, I thought therefore he would be a good opener for my annual post on artists' Xmas cards.
John Piper and stained glass
The video looks at some of Piper's drawings for stained glass and if any readers are interested in doing work in this area, I would as always suggest that you begin by drawing your ideas.
Terry Frost: Xmas cards
Me
So, I have produced my own card this year, but only as a digital collage, feel free to copy, print off and use as you may. It celebrates the fact that I was really enjoying working in glass at the beginning of the year and that I had to resort to paper collages as the year advanced, due to a certain world wide pandemic.
Below are a few other artists that have in their day made Xmas cards, I've added a more representative image of their work below each card, I would hate people to think that these artists were going to be defined by their Christmas card production.
Saul Steinberg
Don Baum
Don Baum
Elsa Schmid
Elsa Schmid
Bob Stocksdale and Kay Sekimachi
Bob Stocksdale
Kay Sekimachi
Kay Sage
Kay Sage
Julia Thecla
Philip Guston
Philip Guston
Happy Christmas everybody and lets hope that the New Year brings in some new ways of thinking about our world; ways that are more communal, more environmentally friendly and less about how many commodities we own.
As we begin to think of Christmas presents:
No more parcelling up and selling off the Earth's resources!
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Happy New Year
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I wish I was talented and patient like u. You can get more patterns about 3D christmas Cards on the website. View more designs from them.
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