Cards of Christmas Past: 2010: 19th Century Carolers in New Castle
Cards of Christmas Past 2010 19th Century Carolers in New Castle Our 2010 card shows the advantage of computer editing and printing to produce a card with more detail and color than our earlier card crafting approaches. In the fall, at Oak Knoll Books on the top floor of the New Castle Opera House, I noticed the view of the old New Castle Courthouse, and it suggested the theme for this card. I wanted to have a high angle view. I made this very preliminary sketch... I couldn't fly over the Courthouse, so I took photographs from ground level to work out the building's proportions. Then I built a maquette, a little model, and photographed it from several viewpoints with a variety of lighting arrangements. I chose this view for the card... ...made a very pale print of the cleaned up photo, carefully preserving the shadows. Then I constructed the drawing over it... And began adding color in Photoshop... I drew the carolers, wagon, trees, the other buildings, and a few small