Christmas Tree in Red - October 28, 2009

"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."

– Channing Pollack

Christmas Tree in Red
2.5" x 3.5" Acrylic on Strathmore Canvas Paper

I'm still playing with ideas for some Christmas cards. This was a fun little painting to do. In case you hadn't noticed, I love purple.

About Channing Pollack

American playwright Channing Pollack is best remembered for his work massively redesigning the plot of the film Metropolis after it was shot. He was born in 1880. He worked in every aspect of New York theater, first as publicist for the Shubert family of theater owners, then as a drama critic who was banned from every Shubert theater, and finally as a playwright whose work included the morality play, The Enemy, as well as Clothes and The Fool. He died in 1946.