Merry Christmas
by Darren Fisher
Title
Merry Christmas
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful still life of red Christmas ornaments photographed on white with all natural lighting. I then used effects and textures to create a painterly look along with making it look like snow was falling. This will make for a beautiful Christmas Card or even a beautiful print hanging in your home.
The first decorated trees were adorned with apples, white candy canes and pastries in the shapes of stars, hearts and flowers. Glass baubles were first made in Lauscha, Germany, by Hans Greiner (1550-1609) who produced garlands of glass beads and tin figures that could be hung on trees. The popularity of these decorations grew into the production of glass figures made by highly skilled artisans with clay molds.
The artisans heated a glass tube over a flame, then inserted the tube into a clay mold, blowing the heated glass to expand into the shape of the mold. The original ornaments were only in the shape of fruits and nuts.
After the glass cooled, a silver nitrate solution was swirled into it, a silvering technique developed in the 1850s by Justus von Liebig. After the nitrate solution dried, the ornament was hand-painted and topped with a cap and hook.
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November 9th, 2014
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