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My Christmas card for 2013. Did you spot Old father troll?
See the DA link for a lot more information. Done in MyPaint and GIMP. I will hopefully soon get a timelapse video together from the making of this.
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Griatch

Outstanding Griatch. Yes I see him. The colors are beautiful.

griatch: you've done your usual outstanding job on the lighting and the trees and bushes look very alive and organic. i like the gnomes/vättar too and i enjoyed searching for father troll, who was very visible once i knew he'd be there somewhere but whom i totally missed first time i looked . i have to admit, though, i really didn't like the colouring. i know these pastel pink winter mornings exist, i've been out in them often enough, but i don't like them in paintings - they remind me too much of tacky mail order pictures from the eighties or something.

A beautiful winter scene Griatch. Nice work!

It looks quite cold! I see the old troll, he was hard to make out for a minute but after staring I saw the features of the face better.

Cute picture! :3

Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone! I've sent this to the printers now, will be fun to see how they look as prints!

@AnMal
Thanks for the comment! As for the colours - fair enough. Can't please everyone.
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Griatch

I sure wish I could paint half as good as that, they are all so beautiful. I do love the colors in that one.

Thanks molly.
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Griatch

Very nice painting. I would like to get it.
Must be blind though I will have to come back and see if I can see your troll.

@Sallyanne
Don't give up, old father troll is there (there are often hidden features like this in my Christmas Cards actually). If you do want the painting, it's available as a print from DeviantArt.
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Griatch

Found him. Only because I read your story on Deviant Art and then I still had to look closely.

By the way I didn't disbelieve he was there.

You hid him very well Griatch.
This image is simply amazing as usual. I hope you never stop showing us your artwork. It's so inspirational.I love the reflections in the water.

Beautiful new Christmas card, congrats and Happy Holidays!

You create some really nice stuff Griatch, it's very natural looking.

Outstanding! Your work is always inspiring!

Beautiful, but it makes me cold just to look at it!