The Christmas Star
by Lois Bryan
Title
The Christmas Star
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art / Photography Based Digital Hand Painting
Description
A tiny Maltese pup, dressed in his finest Christmas sweater, sits in front of the beautifully lit Christmas tree. As if he himself were one of the gaily wrapped packages arranged under the tree's boughs, he sits motionless, seemingly waiting for the magic of the morning to begin. But his eyes are transfixed on something that we cannot see ... something that we cannot understand. His sharp little doggie eyes and his sensitive nose and ears ... they know. They understand the magic that is hovering ... just out of reach of us humans.
The glowing bright star that we cannot know ... though if we're lucky we can feel its presence ... is the magic of the Christmas Star ... the magic of Christmas.
I recently read a lovely book that included some thoughts on the way dogs, with their spectacular senses not only of sight, but hearing and smell, perceive the world. I got to wondering how they experience the same sights and sounds ... probably a lot differently than we do.
"The Christmas Star" is a slight alteration of one of my previous images, "Listening For Santa" which is still available here as well as this new version. I just felt like Buddy needed to be looking at something ... not just listening.
Image painted by hand, digitally, and influenced by and very loosely based on one of my own photos using Corel Painter 2019, a Wacom tablet, the art pen stylus and a wide variety of beautiful digital brushes.
This image was NOT created using AI - Artificial Intelligence.
Fine art purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... it will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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November 19th, 2019
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Comments (33)
Gary F Richards
Spectacular The Christmas Star composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L voted
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS Lois, on your TIED THIRD PLACE WIN in the Christmas Gift Contest!..YAY,...SO WELL DESERVED,
Ronel BRODERICK
Congratulations on your special feature on our homepage and being 'The Best of the Best ' You are welcome to share your Featured Art in the discussion tab of Featured work for more promotion
Jeff Iverson
Congratulations your wonderful work is now featured on What's New! Please add your work to our Discussion archive for features.
Jeff Iverson
Congratulations your wonderful work is now featured on Artist Salon 1! Please add your work to our Discussion archive for features.
Randy Rosenberger
Big Surprise for you today! Your piece of beautiful artwork that you have submitted to our Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group has been chosen by its administrator to be featured on our Homepage of our family of friends and fine artists within our group, which is constantly growing. Congratulations are in order for you for being chosen to appear in this prestigious spot within the Homepage of the WFS group. Thanks much for sharing the beauty of your artwork with other artists and potential buyers.
Anthony Jones
Beautiful work, Lois! Thank you for submitting your artwork to the Paintography Group where the image is now featured on the home page. L/F
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