I had fun painting this one. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and I love painting such themes. I probably romanticize it in my head a lot due to movies etc, because my Christmases in Greece as a kid were not notable. I had more fun with my husband's family in France. Snow and all. Northern European (I've also lived in UK and Germany in my 20s) and American Christmases felt definitely more Christmas-y to me.
Note: I did two paintings yesterday, one was this one, and the other one was the knight that I posted earlier today. I had to delete the knight one because a cache bug deteriorated the quality of the image after the uploading process. I might post it again in a few months, after I properly scan it, when I have all my gear intact in Greece.
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