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Elevationby ~FireFiriel

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My Christmas card picture for this year. It's my first approach to an idea I've had for years, and I want to do more with. I also entered it in a magazine contest, but it didn't win. I'm not even sure it got properly submitted, since something was wrong with the email address they said to send it to.

Since I did this all early for the contest, I was thinking, "Okay now that my Card image is out of the way, I'll have plenty of time for Christmas fanart!" But then, I had to decide to do a coloring book. Of the whole. liturgical. calender.

So yeah.

I can't believe it's already so close to Christmas! Merry merry!

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~rosenknight Jan 2, 2013

Sad. . . I actually entered something into a Christmas Contest too, but I realized later that my email never went through >_< It was a sad realization...

Ahh, but this is a really pretty picture in its own right. I really love the crown of stars!! As most of the others seemingly did as well from the comments, haha

The other details I really like is the texture of the manger/stable, and the depth of the faces. The image itself is just really well composed

Nice work!!

~FireFiriel Jan 2, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

And someone else I know had trouble with the same contest I tried to enter! Seems they didn't go well in general.

Thank you! Since I realized water ripples go in a curved grid I've been seeing them in more and more things, and I think they might be part of the fabric of the universe, so it seemed fitting.

~rosenknight Jan 5, 2013

what a pretty thought!!

*Theophilia Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

AGH. I loved this when I first saw it in my inbox, and I loved even more on further inspection.

I know probably everyone has said this, but I really, REALLY love that star halo thing that you did.

And the little Eucharistic lamp on the side that let's you know that Jesus is "at home", and the face that the manger looks like an altar, and the little drip of blood on the blanket and event he fact that the priest is faceless and generic and yet "is" Jesus because Jesus is held right up in front of him and he takes on Jesus. And all the rest of the ridiculously awesome Eucharistic symbolism that you did.

~FireFiriel Jan 2, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you very much! Yes, that's just it!

I try to make every picture I draw with Christ somehow Eucharistic, and this is, I think, one of my strongest ideas for that. Thanks thanks!

*Theophilia Jan 3, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

You're very, very welcome!

Happy New Year!

~hamundr21 Jan 1, 2013 Student Writer

When the angels had left them, and gone back into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Come, let us make our way to Bethlehem, and see for ourselves this happening which God has made known to us. 16 And so they went with all haste, and found Mary and Joseph there, with the child lying in the manger. 17 On seeing him, they discovered the truth of what had been told them about this child.

Luke 2:14-17 Knox

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~ZhaneAugustine Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

That is an awesome piece

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