Cards of Christmas Past: The Magi on Camels
In 1979 the Wise Men or Magi were arriving on our card. Printed from one screen with different inks, staggered, in three printings displaced for effect.
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Cards of Christmas Past:1978 Art Deco Clouds
Cards of Christmas Past 1978 Art Deco Clouds For our 1978 card I didn't print from a linoleum block or with a "silk" screen. In fact, I didn't hand print them at all. I drew the card design in ink and printed them with a Xerox copier, then hand painted them in watercolor individually. The drawings and my text were done in an art deco style. The quote is from the Book of Isaiah. Many of the themes and quotes on our early Christmas Cards were directly from, or influenced by, the libretto of Handel's The Messiah, which drew extensively on Isaiah. For a few years in the 1960s I was a participant in Wilmington's Capella Chorus, and performed The Messiah annually. That oratorio is still an important part of the Christmas season for me. Here's the front of the card... And here's the inside... Again the cards were printed on one side of the paper and folded in thirds. Our family monogram star and the date were on the back of the folded card.