Sometimes I just have to do no-brainers and play, and one of the things I played with before Christmas - when things got really busy and I didn't always have time to paint - were these small cards that I placed with gift bags for friends. Recycling matboard scraps and royalty free madonna images and/or stamps, gold and red acrylic paint, with a Christmas greeting and signature on the reverse side. Just a slight take off on the artist trading card. In fact, that's where the idea came from - my friend Carol Gardner, whom I travel and paint with, gave me a similar "Christmas card" last year, using the image of a famous painting. I decided to focus on Madonnas this year, inserting a seraphim card here and there...the photograph above shows some of the cards hanging from a crown on my mantlepiece (yes, they are still there and will probably be there through next Christmas!) In days to come, I'll post closeups of the three.
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