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How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everwhere!
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 97
December is "Snape in December." For this contest, draw Snape with anything that can be associated with December.
Painters born in December
Ludolf Backhuysen
Frédéric Bazille
Charles Emmanuel Biset
Abraham Bloemaert
Giovanni Boldini
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Thomas Couture
Noël Coypel
John Crome
François-Hubert Drouais
Thomas Fearnley
Roger Fry
Constantin Guys
Paul César Helleu
Pieter de Hooch
Jean-Étienne Liotard
Juan Lovera
Masaccio
Anton Mauve
Adriaen van Ostade
Jean-Baptiste Pater
Jan-Erasmus Quellinus
Marie van Regteren Altena
George Romney
Georges Seurat
Gilbert Stuart
Su Shi
David Teniers II
Jan Toorop
Félix Vallotton
Willem van de Velde the Younger
Work possibly under copyright:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Joanne Battiste
Julius Bissier
Theo Bitter
Hans Burkhardt
Paul Cadmus
José Maria Capricorne
Paul Citroen
Frank Creton
Stuart Davis
Otto Dix
Uzo Egonu
Dirk Filarski
Helen Frankenthaler
Lucian Freud
Albert Gleizes
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Walter Leblanc
Louis van Lint
Alfred Manessier
John Marin
Henri Matisse
Edvard Munch
Lin Onus
Max Pechstein
John Piper
Qi Baishi
Diego Rivera
Ad Reinhardt
Chéri Samba
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Jan Sluyters
Raphael Soyer
Theo Swagemakers
Antoni Tàpies
Mark Tobey
Maurice Utrillo
Albert de Vriendt
Illustrators/Sculptors/Other (most possibly under copyright):
Mari Andriessen
Dianne Arndt
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Clodion
Joseph Cornell
Roy DeCarava
Dick Elffers
Burne Hogarth
Richard Roland Holst
Jacobus Houbraken
Hans Kresse
David Levine
Aristide Maillol
Giacomo Manzù
Francesco Messina
Bob de Moor
Eliot Porter
Robert Ripley
Luca della Robbia
W. Eugene Smith
James Thurber
Other famous people born in December:
Composers, Directors and Performers: Cleveland Abbe, Ludvig van Beethoven, Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ira Gershwin, Margaret Hamilton, Emmett Kelly, Fritz Lang, Pietro Mascagni, Agnes Moorehead, Jim Morrison, Carlo Ponti, Giacomo Puccini, Frank Sinatra
Doers and Thinkers, Etc.: Melvil Dewey, Walt Disney, Charles Goodyear, Albert Abraham Michelson, Nostradamus, Louis Pasteur, Charles Ringling, Thomas Watson, Eli Whitney
Writers and Poets: Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Emily Dickinson, Heinrich Heine, Rudyard Kipling, John Greenleaf Whittier
(Long-dead or ghostly people only, or wildly-famous public figures, please!)
December holidays observances:
Monthly: Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month, Learn A Foreign Language Month
Weeks: Hand Washing Awareness Week (1st week), Hanukkah (5 - 12), Kwanzaa (26-Jan 1)
Days: World AIDS Day (1), International Day of Disabled Persons (3), Cookie Day, International Hug Day (4), International Volunteer Day (5), International Bad Hair Day (6), Teacher Appreciation Day (7), Human Rights Day (10), Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Poinsettia Day (12), Ice Cream and Violins Day, Cocoa Day, Telescope Day, Make a Gift Day (13), Opposites Attract Day (14), National Chocolate Covered Anything Day (16), Saturnalia, Underdog Day (17), Flake Appreciation Day (18), Eid al Adha, Go Caroling Day (20), Crossword Puzzles Day, Look at the Bright Side Day, Yalda (21), Winter Solstice, Dong Zhi, World Peace Day (22), Festivus (23), Christmas Day (25), Boxing Day (26), Fruitcake Day (27), Hogmanay (29), New Year's Eve (31)
Harry Potter December events:
6: Rubeus Hagrid born
12: Charlie Weasley
31: Tom Riddle born
Minerva McGonagall began teaching at Hogwarts
Harry Potter receives Invisibility Cloak, discovers Mirror of Erised
Snape kicks Lockhart's butt in the Dueling Club, a basilisk petrifies students, Trio take Polyjuice
The Yule Ball
Arthur Weasley attacked by Nagini
Slughorn's Christmas Party, Scrimgeour visits the Burrow
Luna Lovegood captured and Xenophilius Lovegood visited
Harry and Hermione visit Godric's Hollow
The Forest of Dean
Wizards of the Month:
Ignatia Wildsmith, invented Floo Powder
Bowman Wright, creator of Golden Snitch
Laurentia Fletwock, breeder and racer of winged horses.
Miscellany:
Flower: Narcissus, Holly, Poinsettia
Gemstone: Blue Topaz, Turquoise, Zircon, Lapis Lazuli
Weather: Days are short, temperatures cold, with rain and snow.
If you have any other ideas, such as situations or landscapes that remind you of December, please go ahead with them. Enter more than once! As usual, anyone can enter, drawings should be done in ArtPad, humor is more important that artistic skill, entries and comments should be posted as a response here, and frequent screenshots should be taken in case ArtPad fails.