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Christmas Art Poster!
RAEART Randoms Art and Christmas Footage
Christmas Art Poster Questions
i need ideas on what to draw my girlfriend!!! please help?
ok, so i am fifteen, and am pretty good at art. i cant draw faces, or animals well at all. but i am good at looking at a picture and making an almost exact replica as long as it doesnt include a face or anime. lol. i am good at graphiti, but not like 3d graphiti, but it still looks pretty cool. i also got some paper that is the size of a poster, and of course, regular sized art paper. anyways, i really need some ideas for christmas because i promised id draw her something, but i dont know what.
btw, i am good at drawing hair, so like on heads, but not faces.
thanks a ton!!! i really appreciate it! 10 points to first one who answers well. thanks!
A skyline with Santa’s sleigh going across it,
Trees covered in snow,
A house with smoke coming out of the chimney, windows yellow for the warmth of the fire coming out of it,
merry christmas in graffiti letters that are red and green and some white like there is snow piled on top of the letters and maybe snow coming across the page,
her name in red and green how I described above,
both of the two above combined,
Hope this helps (:
WW1 – The UnOfficial Truce – Christmas 1914
One of the interesting things about the first world war concerns the un-official truce between the British and German troops and the Football played between them at “No Man’s Land”.
One of the most remarkable, and heavily mythologised, events concerns the ‘Christmas Truce’ of 1914, in which the soldiers of the Western Front laid down their arms on Christmas Day and met in No Man’s Land, exchanging food and cigarettes, as well as playing football. The cessation of violence was entirely unofficial and there had been no prior discussion. Both sets of troops acted spontaneously from goodwill, not orders.
It began when British troops hearing their German counterparts singing Christmas carols and joined in. Frank Richards, a private in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, told of how both sides erected signs wishing the other a ‘Merry Christmas’. From these small starts some men crossed the lines with their hands up, and troops from the opposing side went to meet them. By the time officers realised what was happening the initial meetings had been made, and most commanders either turned a blind eye or happily joined in.
The fraternisation lasted, in many areas, for the whole of Christmas day. Food and supplies were exchanged on a one to one basis, while in some areas men borrowed tools and equipment from the enemy, in order to quickly improve their own living conditions. Many games of football were played using whatever would suffice for a ball, while bodies that had become trapped within No Man’s Land were buried.
Most modern re-tellings of the Truce finish with the soldiers returning to their trenches and then fighting again the next day, but in many areas the peace lasted much longer. Frank Richard’s account explained how both sides refrained from shooting at each other the next day, until the British troops were relieved and they left the front line. In other areas the goodwill lasted for several weeks, bringing a halt to opportunistic sniping, before the bloody conflict once again resumed.
On January 1, 1915, the London Times published a letter from a major in the Medical Corps reporting that in his sector the British played a game against the Germans opposite and were beaten 3-2.
Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxons recorded in his diary: ‘The English brought a soccer ball from the trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued. How marvellously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the same way about it. Thus Christmas, the celebration of Love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time.’
The Truce lasted all day; in places it ended that night, but on other sections of the line it held over Boxing Day and in some areas, a few days more. In fact, there parts on the front where the absence of aggressive behaviour was conspicuous well into 1915.
Captain J C Dunn, the Medical Officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, whose unit had fraternised and received two barrels of beer from the Saxon troops opposite, recorded how hostilities re-started on his section of the front.
Dunn wrote: ‘At 8.30 I fired three shots in the air and put up a flag with “Merry Christmas” on it, and I climbed on the parapet. He [the Germans] put up a sheet with “Thank you” on it, and the German Captain appeared on the parapet. We both bowed and saluted and got down into our respective trenches, and he fired two shots in the air, and the War was on again.’
The war was indeed on again, for the Truce had no hope of being maintained. Despite being wildly reported in Britain and to a lesser extent in Germany, the troops and the populations of both countries were still keen to prosecute the conflict.
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