Sitting Pear-ty, Christmas card from 1993, linocut and ink
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A Partridge In A Pear Tree
December 19, 2007 by ybonesy
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Let me be the first to say this is beautiful!
I am liking the linoleum cut work.
This has a Pennsylvanis Dutch ‘distilfink’ feel to it.
And it’s Christmas-ey.
And It’s contemporary and graphic.
and I love when you multiply the images 🙂
Aw, shucks. I’m just in love.
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Thanks, leslie. Have you ever done linocuts? I’d be curious to know what you think of them. They’re a great way for artists who naturally gravitate to detail and illustration to work in larger chunks.
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I think I need to try it again. I remember doing linocuts, but when? Must have been grade school – or maybe in Girl Scouts?
Anyway, yours are great!
Are you sending home-made cards this year? I’ve barely managed to mailed a few store-bought ones to my very closest relatives.
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A small History (I know you intellectual writers love this stuff;)
In Middle English pertriche “partridge,” was derived from Perdix, one of Athene’s sacred kings, thrown in the seas from a tower, and carried to heaven in the form of a bird by his goddess. He was the partridge, she the pear tree.
Personally yb, I love the green / blue combo. Very striking
Being non-intellectual, I’m silently hoping to myself if you illustrate the 5 golden rings they’ll resemble onion rings…I may not be able to eat them but I still can admire them 😉
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I learned how to make these in middle school! So much fun, and I love how the partridges came out! Sometimes, I think about trying this again…
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Well done. These are charming. Thank you for sharing yet another side of your expressive gifts.
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Beautiful linocut! Thanks…D
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Yes, bloomgal, I’m sending my homemade cards as soon as I finish baking all my homemade cookies….NOT!
Thanks for the comments. I made a few of these linocuts years ago, when I first learned how to do them. I loved working with the linoleum; it was fluid as I recall.
H — thanks for that bit of information. I didn’t know that. And then do you know why/how Partridge and a Pear tree came to land in the song about the Twelve Days of Christmas? See, I should have done this research so I wouldn’t have this question.
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I love your art as usual. Come on over and claim your Bloggers Who Create Community Award!
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http://smatterings.topcities.com/partridge.html
i was very surprised to see the meaning behind the song. i always just thought it was a quaint song.
Henry VIII was also the founder of my childhood church, Episcopalian(anglican). He dropped catholicism because the church wouldn’t sanction his divorce, and began his own church. An interesting beginning for a church.
Happy Holidays to everyone!
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Thanks for the link! I had no idea. I always wondered about it, though. It is a strange song.
BTW, I remember going to church with my friend Amy when I was in my early teens. Hers was an Episcopalian church. I was a Catholic, and I was stunned at how everything was pretty much the same. I mean, that’s how it all struck me at that age.
If I were to go to church now, I’d probably go to the progressive branch of the Episcopalians in Albuquerque. St. Michaels.
Happy holidays to you, too.
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I’m enjoying your Christmas card linocuts. leslie’s right, this one does have a Pennsylvania Dutch ‘distilfink’ feel to it.
reccos62, I read your link too, and it’s similar to a few links I had also found on the 12 Days of Christmas. But then I found something by the Web Walker disputing the origins as being French (not English) and citing confusion between A New Dial and The 12 Days and now I don’t know what to think.
In brief:
Here’s The Web Walker link if you want to view the many origins of The 12 Days of Christmas (bottom of page for French origins):
http://www.byrum.org/misc/christmas/origin.html
There’s also something in Snopes Urban Legends. But the site has some crazy popups, so I don’t want to add the link here. (You can access it at the link above if you want to brave it.)
I have a feeling history is much like our individual faiths – we choose what resonates with us spiritually. These are all writers who have written and passed down their stories which make up what we come to know as history.
And now, off to the baking….On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me…la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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Linoleum cuts have a nice ‘feel’ when you do them…like cutting butter…but I had a difficult time thinking in ‘negative’…what to cut and what to leave.
I enjoy a direct application. People say I have patience to do my detailed work, but I think artists that go through a process, like printmaking, to gain a result, are FAR more patient!
“4 colly birds”…coal colored birds, or blackbirds.
Paula Pertile has a very funny contemporary version of the 12 Days, here…
http://drawingafineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/tis-season-to-be-jolly.html
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leslie, great link. I was chuckling and singing along! Your cutting butter is a good way to describe the linocut process. I had the same problem with the negative and positive space. I have a hard time with spatial things like that and with mapping and directions. You do have to really like process to do printmaking and papermaking. Happy Holidays!
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