2025 Holiday Card

Posted on January 31, 2026 by raoulpat
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/391209
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/391209

2025 Holiday Card

The image is from The Virgin and Child Seated by a Tree, 1513, by Albrecht Dürer, courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum. Everybody Loves My Baby is a popular and jazz standard song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924, with lyrics by Jack Palmer.
Blackletter calligraphy by Raoul Martinez
After scanning and cleaning up the calligraphy, I composed my holiday card using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Polymer letterpress plate by Crown Flexo Graphics, Antioch
Printed on white BFK Rives 270 gsm paper with Western 4/D Panther Black ink at Grendl Löfkvist’s studio in Oakland.
Printer: Vandercook SP15 test press
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About raoulpat

I got started as a calligrapher in 2009, and haven't put my pen down since. Some of the services that I provide are wedding calligraphy, quinceañera calligraphy, envelope addressing, place cards and transforming inspirational citations into framable artwork.
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1 Response to 2025 Holiday Card

  1. Elena Caruthers's avatar Elena Caruthers says:
    February 2, 2026 at 3:42 am

    Thanks for this, Raoul. I love knowing sources and process 🥰

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