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What do you do for xmas???
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Hi, its not too far away now,what do do do for xmas, do you paint xmas cards,paint calanders,start drawing,painting fir trees and snowmen or start writing your present list for all those tubes of acrylic. Just wondered cos this is my first xmas as a newby painter.ps. if it is xmas cards do you paint one and get them copied at a printers or paint every one.
Thanks for any advice.
PeterAllan.
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Undecided this year, whether to get some from the print company that does all my publicity printing or to give one of the local "Funky Pigeon" people the names and address list and tell them to do something appropriate.
Either way, I try to avoid anything to do with the C-word until after Halloween and Guy Fawkes. I'm already being bombarded by music publishers trying to flog me Christmas music.
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Well - don't hurry the year away, to start with: I shall be 65 in November and am in no hurry at all to get there.
Even so: entering into the spirit of your question - 1) Lino prints make fantastic cards, so I'm with Amanda on that one; 2) I do paint my own, usually - normally, I do a couple, and print them on my computer. I have a very small Christmas card circulation list, which I hack at further every year - so it wouldn't be worth getting them professionally printed (unless you're a company, with a substantial mailing list, is it ever?); 3) this is the absolute limit of my festive impulses - I don't do calendars: I should be perfectly happy to provide pictures for a calendar, but this would not be festive - it would be entirely mercenary on my part, a commercial enterprise; I am open to the juiciest possible approach from any company which wishes to commission me.
As to buying them, in a bargain pack - well; no, I think not. If one's going to send them at all, I'd like to put a bit of personal effort into it. And I don't do religion, or Regency coaching scenes, or whimsical verses. Or doe-eyed children, puppy-dogs, or puddy-tats.... A rat, mind! Gurt big rat, in a Christmas hat - oh yes .... What could be nicer, or more suitable to the time of year?
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I won't be doing any cards.The cost of producing your own cards is just a tad beyond the realms of good sense. My wife bought all our cards in the January sales with each card costing less than the cost of the stamp. Perhaps we're just both tight fisted. I must add that I am always amazed that artists cards sold at exhibitions sell as well but they do. Why pay something like £1.50 or whatever for a card when you buy quality cards on the internet at something like 50p each.
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I am with Syd on this! However with it being a tad colder and all etc etc I was thinking of painting a big stretched canvas to look like a fireplace with a big old-fashioned roaring fire in it so for the (name omitted for taste - its not halfway through Oct yet!) cards I could then print that. It also helps to have almost no family (and friends) at that time of year - a dozen should do it nicely.