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1½ inches thick (3.75 cm)
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Artist Heidi Needham
Collection Greetings
Description This picture was created as a Greeting card for a series featuring famous Christmas carols. It is a digital composition created in Paint Shop and Digital Imagine Suite. I started with a canvas were I changed the color to light brown to give an old paper appearance. The music is a scan of original musical arrangement of the Christmas carol Silent Night and were added as second layer to the backgroundThe third layer; the mother with child, is the scan of a charcoal scratch I did sometime ago. Finally the black was painted in with art brush strokes; the stars from my private collection of clips and the text were added. The Christmas carol Silent Night is the most recorded carol of all times with an amazing story of its origin. It is almost a miracle we now the song it all: the combination of coincidences as in a fairytale.In 1818 a Joseph Mohr a poor priest of a poor Church in Oberndorf, Austria was preparing for a special Christmas Eve mass as he discovered that the old organ do to the extreme cold temperature wouldn't work. After struggling with the instrument for sometime he realized that he couldn't fix it. He started to think what could be done to save Christmas.He was a talented poet even had written before poems and song lyrics for special service so he looked for some of his older lyrics what could be used and sung by the choir with guitar music.He found a little poem 'Stille Nacht' [Silent Night] he had written two year ago but never used. The words were simple enough to learn in a short time but there was no music.Moor asked his friend the school teacher Franz Gruber if he could write a melody easy to learn by choir. Franz wrote a beautiful simple melody in a few hours. More learned the guitar cords and the choir were rushed to the church to learn the new song. In the short time left Mohr and Gruber taught the choir the four part harmonies to the last two lines of each verse. Christmas was saved. A few weeks later Karl Mauracher came
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