Searching For The Meaning of The Holiday | A Mixed Media Art Project

in #hive-15869411 months ago

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Because the holiday we celebrate as Christmas on December 25th of each year is about the birth of Jesus, God's Son, the day and season should be about how He came to provide humanity hope, joy and love for each other. The original message has not changed.

What has changed I feel is loss of this true meaning. The time when family would gather to attend Church, stories were read about the birth of Jesus.

Instead, festive celebrations of the holiday has emerged.

This is especially true of Christmas. Within the past few decades, commercializing the holiday has pushed the true meaning and sentiment to the background. Immediately after the summer season as ended in the U.S., retails deliver holiday items as early as September.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, one-day, end of the year, warehouse, car dealer, furniture, Holiday Collector's Barbie (each year) and other retail highlighting gifts aimed at luring society into their retail outlets to get the "deal of the year" before Christmas day.

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My approach to this mixed media project was to locate an alien version of a human face staring into the starry night's milky way searching for the meaning of Christmas. Is it the tree with bright bulbs and sparkling lights below that I see everywhere I look, she wonders?

Several of the images I utilized were my pure fractals created in Apophysis, the fractal rendering program. The final images a lovely night background sky and landscape and a haunting female image.

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To blend the scene, I utilize my design program Canva. Below are my procedures:

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To a blank, white canvas, I added the night starry background image.
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Resized background image to fill canvas. Added pure wreath fractal and duplicated it to fill bottom landscape.
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Added alien woman image.
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Resized alien woman, repositioned, colorized, then duplicated sections to fill canvas.
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Added embellishments to the woman's head.
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Added the blue fractal, duplicated it for both sides of the woman's head.
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Added the white rainbow Christmas tree. Repositioned it, and completed project.
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Below is my completed mixed media art project.

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Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media art project.

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Good luck everyone with whatever your endeavors.

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SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/

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@justclickindiva The idea of ​​the nose with the tree is well integrated. I looked at your work thinking its globes were persings or scarifications, which made for a very alien sci-fi look. Looking carefully, I guessed the tree. After looking at how you constructed your work, I really saw the tree. Bravo, I really like this artistic creation.

Hi @cyboule. I'm pleased you liked this mixed media part project depicting the holiday season. I thought the tree on the nose would be an added mysterious feature. I see it worked as a sci-fi element. My thought was that while searching for the true meaning of Christmas, one is confronted up in their face with the frivolities of the season, thereby obscuring the true meaning.

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Hi @francisftlp. Thanks so much for your visit and lovely compliment. I appreciate it and am pleased you liked my project. I try to be as creative as I can when working on my mixed media art projects because I love creating fractals then combing them with other mixed art types.

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The final result is a very beautiful painting and I love how the eyes are, the colors inside them are also very beautiful.

Thanks so much for your lovely compliment @djbravo. I appreciate it and am pleased you liked the colors. I try different color combinations to see what works. But sometimes doing different combinations can be dramatic and make a statement.

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Hello @hispapro. Thanks so much for your visit and manual curation of my mixed media art project. I appreciate your support and that of the Hispapro Community.

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