postcard giveaway

11:10 AM posted by lydia nichols

Dear 2010,
Thank you for being a far better year than 2009. Despite my occasional whines and complaints, please know how much I appreciated you and all you did for me. Wish me luck on grad school applications–here's to me ending up someplace great. And please put in a good word for me with 2011. I'll remember you fondly–and not just because of your nice, round numbers.
Yours,
Lydia




To celebrate the end of 2010 and my high hopes for an even better 2011, I'm giving away a package full of postcards from this past year including my new Greetings from Gowanus postcard. Just comment on this post and I'll randomly select someone on January 1st (or 2nd, if I forget). Or, if you follow me on Twitter, you can tweet at me: happy new year postcard love.

I'll contact the winner via e.mail to get his/her mailing address so that I can send off...
+ 2 Greetings from Gowanus postcards
+ 1 two-pack of Birthday postcards
+ 1 two-pack of Spring postcards
+ 1 Sewing Along postcard
+ 1 Run Cowboy postcard
+ 1 Here Comes the Sun postcard
+ 1 bonus postcard

That's a total of 10 postcards for you to keep or send! I might also draw a few other names just to mail a little 'hullo' to. I hope everyone reading this has a fantastic, productive, safe, and successful 2011.

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happy holidays!

2:42 PM posted by lydia nichols


And a merry christmas to you too! Or happy belated Hannukah. And happy winter solstice–did you see the lunar eclipse? Anyway, regardless of what you're doing, enjoy it and have a great weekend.

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Philadelphia Magazine

12:55 PM posted by lydia nichols

Philly Mag / SAD Lamp spot 2

Last week...no, make that right before Thanksgiving (I'm losing all sense of time) I did a little spot illustration for Philadelphia Magazine for a piece on seasonal depression and the benefit of SAD lamps. Above is the final version I submitted, using the direction to keep it dark and wintry with only the lamp and face glowing. However, I also did the below color version before reaching the final. Coloring is something I enjoy, but as you know if you follow my work, I tend to keep my palettes small, muted, and flat. It was a good exercise to push myself a bit with the final piece, though I'm fairly pleased with how both turned out–just two different moods!

Philly Mag / SAD Lamp spot 1

In other news, I've been holed up in my studio painting, drawing, and, yes, still preparing my applications for grad school. Hopefully I'll be posting what I've been working on soon! Like my illustrations, it's all very narrative, simple, and flat, but I've been exploring painting on wood and utilizing the grain as well as scale and composition. More later!

A belated happy thanksgiving and an early happy holidays.

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