I have been knitting Santa finger puppets to feature on collage finger puppet Christmas cards.
The collage is going to have Santa happily agreeing to endorse Coke while still wearing his favourite clothes - the modern image of Santa is often thought to be the invention of artist Haddon Sundblom in his Christmas soft drink adverts, starting in 1931.
In fact, Santa as we know him was created and standardised in the 1860s, when artist Thomas Nast made a series of pictures for Harper Magazine. Santa was protrayed as a jovial chap in red and white, with a toy workshop. The idea for writing to Santa also came from Thomas Nast. Until then, Santa had appeared in a number of different guises.
Anyway, I knitted three Santas and stood them in my open glasses case, and it immediately changed into a rather lovely boat.
I saw three Santas come sailing in...
Photos of the finished Santa collage cards to follow.
The collage is going to have Santa happily agreeing to endorse Coke while still wearing his favourite clothes - the modern image of Santa is often thought to be the invention of artist Haddon Sundblom in his Christmas soft drink adverts, starting in 1931.
Anyway, I knitted three Santas and stood them in my open glasses case, and it immediately changed into a rather lovely boat.
Photos of the finished Santa collage cards to follow.
Fabulous ... I love these and look forward to their future adventures.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure they are going to have many adventures - too busy endorsing a certain soft drink!
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could persuade the M&S advertising agency to use them next year...
ReplyDeleteExcellent plan! Send them out to work! Ho ho ho
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