Merry Christmas

To wrap up the blog's oh-so-short Christmas card festival, may we present

Country ...

City ...

Forest ...

And church ...

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Christmas Eve

And St. Nick gets ready to depart with Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, etc.

Everyone here at the Guild office wishes you the merriest of holidays, and that you have a safe and happy Christmas Eve.

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Ralph H. Christmas

You might be wondering what happened to these:

Funny thing.

We've run a couple of hundred Christmas cards from the brush of Ralph Hulett (my artist father) over the years, but seem to be pretty well out of new designs. There might be a handful that we've missed, but we run this one from a few years ago because it's ... pretty.

So instead of running none, we offer a few golden oldies. Hope they please you.


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Ralph Hulett's New Year's Eve

The last card of the year. Yet another still life ....

More landscapes and still lifes than we would have liked this year, but we've run through a LOT of cards over the last few holiday seasons, and presenting new designs means digging deeper into the archives.

(Here, here, and here are a few character cards from Christmases past. The Siamese, if you're wondering, is modeled from the family cat and not the Disney "Lady and the Tramp" Siamese.)

For more card designs, all you need do is click on "Ralph Hulett Crhistmas" there on the right.
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Merry Ralph Hulett's Christmas!

Joyous Christmas ...

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A Ralph Hulett Christmas Eve

Another card from the later sixties ....

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Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 8

One of the rare Hulett "oil painting" Christmas cards (although he might have done this one with acrylics) ...

Deep winter, and more a gallery piece than card design, I think. Click here to read entire post

Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 7

Desert yucca at sunrise (or maybe sunset?) ...

Mr. Hulett did numerous treatments of this flowering plant. (Here's one here ... and here.)

Different versions of time-honroed subjects. Click here to read entire post

Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 6

Your flocked, indoor Christmas tree ...

From the middle 1960s. Click here to read entire post

Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 5

One more Christmas candle still-life, this one without the textures ...

Heavy on highlights and Christmas reds. Click here to read entire post

Ralph Hulett Christmas, Day 4

Deer in deep winter, deep snow, and bright moonlight. (The subject matter is similar to this and this.) ...

But what's interesting is that there is a big bright disk of moon in one direction, while shadows are being cast in another direction. (And snow is falling!)

But what the hell. It works from a design standpoint. It's a Christmas card, after all. Click here to read entire post

Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 3

So here's a mixed media still-life ...

Candle on pine bow in traditional Disney-style background paints, painted over a collage. The entire piece is on illustration board. Click here to read entire post

Ralph Hulett's Christmas, Day 2

So here's a card a long way from yesterday's offering: a bell in a Northeast belfry, crusted with snow. ...

This one is painted on illustration board with the usual paints, and hails from the 1950s. Stylized trees, doves and star field complete the effect. Click here to read entire post

The First Day of Ralph Hulett's Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving! And we kick off the 2013 holiday festivities with a large Christmasy watercolor from the 1940s ...

Most of the Hulett holiday cards were done with Disney background paints on illustration board. This specimen, however, was on a watercolor half sheet, and is a bit looser than many of his cards, yet has a dandy touch of winter about it. (Hulett occasionally changed media, sometimes doing collages, sometimes using oil paints on masonite. It all depended on the subject, and what he wanted to put across.) Click here to read entire post

The last day of Ralph Hulett's Christmas

A character card, with the oft-used butler. (See others here and here.)

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Ralph Hulett's New Year's Eve

Don't think that's fireworks through the trees, but who knows?

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Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 21

Doves and a radiant sun. Joy to the world.

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Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 20

Deer, dark tree trunks, and French vanilla snow.

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Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 19

Bell towers and steepled churches usually get foreground objects, and do so here.

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Ralph Hulett's Christmas, day 18

Much the same subject matter as the Christmas eve card below, but a whole different treatment.

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