Happy Holidays
Mara Heuer
Happy Holidays, 2024
Pencil, acrylic & acrylic marker on paper
© Mara Heuer, 2024
In Mara Heuer’s painted toy chest, the misfits always get top billing. Gremlins, snowmen, clowns, and Christmas trolls climb out of the bottom of the box, freshly unpacked to deliver the kind of cheer only slightly feral holiday mascots can manage. Pencil and acrylic land in confident, uneven strokes that keep the wobble of hand painted toys intact, with saturated matte colors and loose, memory-soaked lines doing the rest. It’s a reunion of old toys made new again, quirks fully restored and ready to usher in seasonal chaos.
Mara Heuer
Happy Holidays, 2024
Pencil, acrylic & acrylic marker on paper
© Mara Heuer, 2024
In Mara Heuer’s painted toy chest, the misfits always get top billing. Gremlins, snowmen, clowns, and Christmas trolls climb out of the bottom of the box, freshly unpacked to deliver the kind of cheer only slightly feral holiday mascots can manage. Pencil and acrylic land in confident, uneven strokes that keep the wobble of hand painted toys intact, with saturated matte colors and loose, memory-soaked lines doing the rest. It’s a reunion of old toys made new again, quirks fully restored and ready to usher in seasonal chaos.
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The handwriting doesn't look printed. My mom asked if I'd written it myself. I said yes.
— Blake, LA
Arrived in four days. I'd braced for longer.
— Ian, Chicago
Sent it to a friend I hadn't seen since college. He sent me a photo of it on his side table a week later.
— Dave, Philly
My wife sent it to me on a random Tuesday. No occasion. That was the point.
— Eddie, Tampa
Kept it on my shelf next to my books. Doesn't look out of place. That's the highest compliment I can give a card.
Chelsey, New York
My little brother graduated in May. I live across the country. This was the closest I could get to being there.
— Jared, Chicago
Put one in every welcome bag for a networking event I hosted. Got emails afterward asking how I'd handwritten them all. I told them my secret.
- Carly, Ft. Lauderdale
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