"Merry Christmas" é um cartão de Natal em aquarela com uma caligrafia vermelha a pincel no alto. Abaixo, uma vila com neve pintada, com janelas acesas, uma igreja, pinheiros e uma ponte de pedra sobre um riacho, fica sobre papel branco texturizado.

rendered in a holiday greeting-card script: flowing connected brush-pen lettering in medium weight, thick downstrokes and hairline upstrokes, every letter on one level baseline. The first capital opens with a large looping entry swash; the last letter trails a long tail that sweeps back beneath the word as an underline flourish. Exactly two small holly sprigs and no other ornament: one tucked against the first capital's loop, one at the tip of the flourish. Each sprig is two spiky green holly leaves with three round red berries, no taller than a lowercase letter, beside the strokes and never on a letter. Like the greeting on a classic Christmas card. the kind of hand-painted watercolor holiday card that looks painted by an illustrator for a stationery shop. GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: a loose watercolor winter scene — a row of little Christmas village houses, snowy pine trees, soft hills and falling snow — painted wet-on-wet with soft bleeding edges, sitting in the lower part or a vignette, with generous white paper left around the words. LIGHT: soft, cold winter daylight with warm glowing windows. COLOUR: muted winter tones — slate blue, sage and pine green, warm brick red and ochre — on white or cream paper; colour fades out into the paper at the edges. TEXTURE: visible cold-press watercolor paper grain, pigment blooms and granulation, a few white gouache snow dots. TIERS: cosy village tier (houses, warm windows, red accents) / quiet snowscape tier (pines, hills, mostly blue and white). A watercolor Christmas card front: 'Merry Christmas' at the top, a painted snowy village with glowing windows and pine trees below, lots of white paper.