Lift up your heads... (very image-heavy post)

[himmapaan]

The weather has been so very warm these past few days here, it's curious that I should have unearthed this old, unfinished Christmas-themed project recently whilst rooting about for more watercolour paper.

This was to have been a full-colour illustration for a christmas card.  I remember very clearly that it was begun in the summer of 2003, the year

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[himmapaan]

Thank you so much. I did enjoy those little unusual additions. As you say - it was a way of introducing something of myself and my interests into the scene. :)

[anonymous]

Oh, my. How wonderful. As always, I'm completely overwhelmed by the beauty of your drawing, but I also so much love the way you've incorporated so many things into the Nativity. Guan Yin and Handel! What a marvel!

Having grown up Christian but being Buddhist for the last 25 years, each year I set up a manger scene that includes many deities, but nothing prepared me for the beauty of this. Thanks.

[mamculuna]

Me, sorry. Cleaned up my computer too well.

[himmapaan]

Hehe! :D

[himmapaan]

Thank you so much!

I enjoyed those personal touches very much. I'm so intrigued by your own Nativity set-up with its variety of deities. I never realized you were a Buddhist too - how lovely to learn that. :)

[lost_dryad]

Beautiful! And I think you are right, it holds its own just the way it is, I don't think it needs to be "finished".

[himmapaan]

Thank you so much! :D

[malkhos]

Every time you put up one of your drawings, I find myself saying, "I want one! I want one!"

My God, you're incredibly talented.

[himmapaan]

You're so kind - thank you so much! I do wish there was away in which you could have a copy. Please feel entirely free to save these for yourself - poor quality photographs though they are.

[himmapaan]

Thank you so much!

Hehe, the shepherd is rather dwarf-like in appearance, though he's very much human. :D