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  • Do you have a holiday style? Think about buying wrapping paper: there’s always the traditional (red, green, Santa, reindeer), then there’s the cooler color collection (blues, teals, white, penguins, snowflakes, silver, ice skating), then there’s novelty Christmas (bright colors, animals in Santa hats, run down grandmas), and of course there’s elegant Christmas (dark colors, plaids, textures, gold, glitter, script lettering). I’m a weird mix of them for sure, but it surprises me every year how I’m drawn to at least a little touch of holiday elegance; black and gold, Nat King Cole, pretty earrings with comfy sweaters. But then I turn around and see an ornament of a bowling bear wearing a sweater on our tree and I feel pretty great about that too. This repeat is for the elegant crowd! . . . #illustration #illustrator #surfacedesign #surfacepattern #repeat #giftwrap #holiday #christmas #elegant #gold #ink #draweveryday #printandpattern #patternobserver
  • For 25 years I lived in Michigan and dealt with snow tires and warming up your car 20 minutes before you leave and scraping off ice and stomping off boots and leaving faucets trickling and now I live in Arizona where my teeth chatter at 50 degrees. Stay warm out there ❄️⛄️👵🏼 #wuss . . . #illustration #illustrator #vintage #vintagechristmas #retroillustration #staywarm #snowflake #snow #cold #art #painting #gouache #ink #makearteveryday
  • Guess how many times I changed the colors in this piece? Guess how many times I redrew the cats, adjusted the contrast, erased the facial expressions? My point is that the longest part of the process as an illustrator is refining - trying things, throwing them away, chiseling - until finally you can’t take away or add anything without throwing the whole thing off balance. In this case the solution was green cats. . . . #illustrator #illustration #holiday #christmas #christmastree #otannenbaum #rockinaroundthechristmastree #retroillustration #vintage
  • If you live in the US, if you celebrate Thanksgiving, if you happen to be on IG right now, if IG is actually working right now, I’d love the hear about a little thing that you are SO GRATEFUL FOR. Here are some of mine: Brooks wearing a Santa hat all season (even in the desert), a deep breath of crisp air, when butter melts into mashed potatoes, when you text a friend at the same time they’re texting you, when the smell of cooking food first hits my nostrils, wearing thick socks, laughing with loved ones. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 . . . #illustration #illustrator #retroillustration #vintage #holiday #lettering #tistheseason #christmas #thanksgiving #givethanks #littlethings
  • It took an incredible amount of time to keep these tinies from looking like they want to murder people. The simple ones are never all that simple are they? . . . #illustrator #illustration #surfacedesign #holiday #snowmen #holidayart #repeatpattern #holidayrepeat #vintage #retroillustration

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