Frozen Planet Christmas Cards

"If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it."

Andrew Denton

This year I decided that, as a someone with a degree in Illustration, I should really design my own Christmas cards. But, as my friends know, I'm not a massively Christmassy person. All that red and green cliche stuff, that's not me. I would have painted from the nativity scene, but it's been so overdone and I couldn't find a new angle for it. So I was watching Frozen Planet one day, and that inspired me for these wintery scenes. Not massively Christmassy, but a little bit different. What do you think?

And then, I graduated...

Hannah Harding

BA Hons Illustration

So there we have it. My student days are officially over, I have my degree, no more university, I will be moving out of home before long, and I even have a proper grown up job now too. But I'm not at all sad. It's the summer of life, and it's time to enjoy it where I can.

Autumn

 I do love to paint trees. In other news, I graduated today, will post awkward robe and hat photos tomorrow!

Worship

'When he saw Jesus a long way off, he ran and bowed in worship before him—then bellowed in protest, "What business do you have, Jesus, Son of the High God, messing with me? I swear to God, don't give me a hard time!"'

Mark 5: 6-8 (The Message)

I was asked to do an art response for the new youth service that's been set up in my town. My friend, Duane, was preaching and he was talking on Mark 5: 1-20. His talk focused on the barriers that we can build about ourselves; hatred, unforgiveness, etc. They made me think of an empty, barren land, dead and dry. But I didn't want to leave the painting on a depressing note (this is a service for young people after all, and they have enough depressing stuff going on without me adding to it!) so I painted a wall being broken down by life and colour.

For a first attempt at a worship piece, and considering I had only an hour, little preparation and was not using my own paints I'm quite proud of the result. Okay, it's a little bit cliche, but it was quite a challenging theme to illustrate. I can't take all the credit for it though, and I want to say a huge thank you to Chantelle and Kate who painted the sky, and cracked the earth, and let me boss them around in general (in fact, they actually did most of the work if I'm honest.) You two are absolute stars. And thank you again to Chantelle for the photo (because I forgot to take any!)

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