Oil pastel on textured Mat Board, 32x26
19th Santa in the Santa Claus series
There is a wonderful Holiday poem that describes Santa and his pipe - "the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath". This year I have presented SANTA, himself encircled IN a wreath, decorated with both nature's bounty as well as glittering red and green man-made ornaments. And just as described by the poet Clement C. Moore in The Night Before Christmas, the "beard on his chin is as white as the snow". But, it's really all about the wreath!
