I started creating hand-painted birthday cards for friends back in 2009.
Making lots of small, single-sitting paintings was a great exercise. But sending original art to every individual was unsustainable. The following year, I switched over to scanning my paintings and making reproductions with our home office color laser printer.
Typically now, I do five designs each year. That allows me to send a different painting to all the members of the largest family on my mailing list — and have one more, set aside for New Year’s cards. Here are the designs that went out during 2022:
