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Born 1953, Needham, Massachusetts. |
| About the Artist | |
Each year since 1989 I have created a limited edition Christmas Card. They are done in pen and ink, in a stipple style that is uniquely my own. The images have ranged from Cape Cod to New Hampshire and Rhode Island, but all are very much the heart and soul of a New England Christmas. Receiving these cards just before the holidays has become a tradition in many homes, and is the pleasure I get from months of hard work in creating the images. |
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Christmas: New Bedford
1989 |
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| Whaling Captain's Home, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1988
This was my first Christmas Card pen and ink illustration. I had
graduated from college some ten years earlier, but career challenges had
kept me from being able to paint. Christmas was and is a very special
time of year for me. The holiday celebrations and the decorations have
always inspired me.
For many years there was a glass museum in New Bedford, and each year
they hosted a holiday tour of the mansions in New Bedford, that is how I
was how I was able to capture this image.
This particular drawing is of a Whaling Captain's home in New Bedford, decorated for the holiday
season. I'm very pleased with this illustration, the use of perspective
on the stairs adds a great deal to the composition. There are
lights reflected in the windows, and beautiful large glass decorations
on the tree. There is a stillness to this first pen and ink.
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Winter Scene: Sconticut Neck,
1998 |
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| With this card I had been home in Fairhaven for over a year. This is the image from my backyard, overlooking Little Bay in Fairhaven. Fresh after a winter snow, clumps of snow cling to the cedar tree. Some stalks of sea grass stand tall in silhouette, with Girl Scout Island in the distance. I try to use the darkened foreground to create a perspective on the landscape. It is a heavy winter sky. |
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Winter Scene: Tiverton RI
2004 |
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| This view of the saltmarsh overlooks Narragansett Bay in Tiverton Rhode Island. The marsh is covered in ice, as is the bay beyond the stand of trees. This is an image close to a friends home, one that I had driven by for years before I decided to make an illustration of it. I'm pleased with the way the composition leads the eye from the foreground to the distant hills across the bay. There is a tranquility to this image, and it reminds me of the quite of a winter scene, the air still, the sound of the ice cracking in the cold. |
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Christmas Bells
2001 |
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| The image of a classic mansion from the New Bedford area:
Longfellow poem inside
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men! |
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Winter Scene: Princeton MA
2003 |
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| Snowflakes In The Air
Winter Everywhere
Jingle Bells, Sing Noel
Special Gifts To Share.
This pen and ink drawing was of a farm on the hillside of Mount Wachusett, in Princeton Massachusetts. My friends Lee and JoAnn were visiting me the winter I lived in Leominster, MA. We went for a drive after a heavy spring snowfall, and ended up driving along the snowcovered hills of Princeton. It was a late snowfall, one of the last of the year. We had great fun driving the back roads, and seeing such beautiful vistas. This is a late afternoon image, the shadows fall off to the left, as the sun begins its decline. What I likes most about this is it is such a pure New England image. It could be Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine or Massachusetts, but it is very New England.
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| Education and biography | |
| Framingham State College BA in Fine Art/Art History Boston University Master of Educational Media & Technology Post graduate classes at Rhode Island School of Design, UMass Dartmouth |
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| Website: www.danamorris.net/christmas_cards/Cards_index.html | |
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