Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Have a holly Jolly Christmas....

If it's cool with everyone, I'm going to fly right over Thanksgiving and land on Christmas, which is my favorite Holiday and one I approach as a purely secular event. I think the sheen and glimmer of childhood Christmases never really wore off for me, and--cheesy as t sounds--it still feels like a magical time. I love getting to hang with my extended family, eat good food, exchange presents and all that good stuff, but mostly I love Christmas because it's a visual feast. I love colored lights, I love shiny things, and I love decorating.... ANYTHING. I love shopping for fancy wrapping paper at Target, baking and ornately icing cookies, cutting paper snowflakes, trimming the tree in vintage glass bulbs, making holiday cards by hand, etc.

Click HERE to view an e-card I made using an animation program called Hype. It's an easy program to learn and is very affordable. Highly recommended!

Anyway, here are a few holiday-related things from my illustration archives. If I could get a job designing retro X-mas decorations and wrapping paper, I'm pretty sure I could do that for the rest of my life and be totally happy.

Happy Holidays!!!!!








2 comments:

Stephanie Lemghari said...

These are lovely illustrations and I love your holiday card! I am going to check out HYPE.

tringel said...

I love your card!!! Did you draw the people in it? Was this from advanced web ;) Yours is much better then mine :)