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| my Instagram "Advent Calendar", beginning with the cheery robin bottom right and finishing with the Nativity top left © Teresa Newham |
From the beginning of December until Christmas Eve I posted an image on Instagram every day as an online advent calendar. I usually get one for myself, but couldn't find any I liked, so I thought: Why not dig out some of my older Christmas/Winter-themed artworks instead, and share them online?
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| Harpenden Common in the snow photo © Teresa Newham |
Putting the calendar together was a lot of fun, and I found plenty of work which doesn't often see the light of day nowadays: I'd love to make a watercolour of a snowy Harpenden Common, and it may be that this ten-year-old photo would make a suitable starting point. I'd almost forgotten it . . .
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| Christmas Carol cards © Teresa Newham |
When posting the calendar I also suggested a Christmas carol of the day; which was easy for this trio of watercolour Christmas cards which originally had the words of Silent Night, O Tannenbaum and O Come all ye Faithful printed inside them. I've always thought of the little red-haired girl as me, even though I don't have red hair. Or a dog.
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| linocut Christmas cards hand printed by Teresa Newham |
I was somewhat surprised to find that I'd made ten linocut Christmas cards over the years; sadly I don't have a decent image of the first one to include here. Foolishly I limited the edition for that one so it's a bit of a collector's item - I sold the last one a year ago and didn't keep one for myself. You live and learn.
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| miscellaneous watercolour Christmas cards by Teresa Newham |
It was good to revisit some of the watercolour Christmas cards I made before I started producing them in linocut. I still have some of the originals, although the dove and the poinsettia have both found new homes. And I'd forgotten all about this experimental snowscape from 2010, which was one of three I made back then. I really should get round to making some more wintry art!
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| snowscape - one of three similar watercolours by Teresa Newham |
Beautiful designs! I think the idea of a painting of Harpenden Common in the snow is a great idea.
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