Joyous Christmas
Joyous Christmas
Every year I do a special Christmas painting to use on my holiday cards. I got the idea from a young couple I knew in Oklahoma City who painted a picture together to celebrate their first Christmas. Each year they got it out and hung it over the mantle. I loved that.
Those of you who remember my earlier pastel "Sebastian's Christmas"
(circa 1992?) will see that this is a more elaborate version of that piece. To me, this scene signifies all that is best about Christmas, what it should be: warmth, good memories, those we love, the assurance of God's love. Even when there is not goodwill among me there is still goodwill towards men from our Heavenly Father. The fact that someone went to the effort to put up a tree and decorate it signifies that hope and faith are still shining in that person's heart, and can be transferred in a sort of "good infection" -- a term I borrow from C.S.
Lewis -- to the people around them.
This is an 18 x 24" pastel on Canson paper. $2,400 in custom frame.