Christmas Card Paintings

UAL has an open call with Tate for Christmas Card designs, and I spent this weekend making three (that’s how many you’re able to submit).

This is the first one I made (though not the first version—I used colored pencils in the first one, which I’m not very good at.) It took me about 2 minutes to think of it.

I don’t know if I submitted this first one if it had a chance of getting picked, but my first reaction seeing it finished was just disappointment, so I didn’t even bother.

I thought to make this one because I got stumped after finishing the guinea tree one, took a walk through Mudchute farm, looked at the ducks and this immediately popped into my head. Even though it is not a duck. I didn’t even see the geese that day. I don’t think Canadian geese are anywhere in Europe.

I was looking at the other two finished ones alongside previous winners and thought to myself, these don’t look very… Tate… so I made this. I kinda like it but none of my friends do, compared to the other two.

These were all made with gouache and watercolor paper.