Artist Behind 2018 ˿Ƶapp Holiday Card: Jose Ramirez
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Digital MediaJose Ramirez, inspired by the painting style of Bob Ross, created the artwork selected in the 2018 annual student design competition for the ˿Ƶapp Holiday Card.
“Winter as One” depicts several animals working together and playing the snow.
“It portrays a diversity of woodland creatures, wearing ˿Ƶapp colored scarfs, as they spread some winter holiday cheer by building a snowman,” said Ramirez. “I wanted my image to have a realistic feel, yet, I played around and ended up with a fun playful look.”
Each year, one design is selected from work submitted by ˿Ƶapp students. Ramirez receives $500 from the ˿Ƶapp Foundation and 25 printed copies of the card that features his artwork. The card is emailed to ˿Ƶapp students, faculty, and staff, and mailed to community members and ˿Ƶapp Foundation members by ˿Ƶapp President & CEO Leigh B. Goodson, Ph.D.
Ramirez created the digital art using Adobe Photoshop as a student in ˿Ƶapp Assistant Professor Cristina Umezawa’s Adobe InDesign class.
“For this project I didn’t want to use something you'd typically see in holiday cards like reindeer and penguins. Instead, I chose to go with something more original and used a squirrel in the snow. Then to symbolize ˿Ƶapp’s diversity, I included other animals such as a cardinal and bunny,” says Ramirez.