Franz Brown (John Falstaff) as Santa Claus
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Franz Brown (John Falstaff) as Santa Claus
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to get to Franz Brown's main art page click here Main Home
Santa Claus
Paintings
Brown's
Santa paintings on display.
Santa Claus Paintings by Tom Browning Featuring Franz Brown Christmas Products Featuring Tom Browning paintings of Franz Brown |
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The artist Franz Brown is a resident of South Dakota, does free-lance writing, photography and painting. He occasionally writes about artists for magazines and his work has appeared in Southwest Art, US Art and a few other publications. To learn more about Franz go to his Biography. |
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From 2001 to 2005 he was the "guest" as Santa on the Santa Train in Chadron and a number of other small towns in western Nebraska. Franz Santa Claus Brown, 2006à Brown also does his own Santa Claus paintings. |
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Videos Video produced by Franz Brown showing paintings going from start to finish, photography, etc. This shows some of the initial photography used in idea development and then follows the progress of a painting from start to finish. To view click here.
These and other videos may also be seen at |
Planning a Christmas Show?
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This will take you to the Franz
Brown Art Journal Site. If you want to follow works in progress and a bit of
discussion about those works this is the place to go. |
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Santa Claus Paintings by Tom Browning |
Franz is perhaps more familiar to many across the United States, and in a few foreign countries, as the Santa Claus who appears in the Santa's Time Off series by artist Tom Browning. His image has appeared on Christmas cards, prints, mugs, throw rugs, plates and shopping bags. For more on the Browning Santa images go to Santa Claus. Franz began working with Tom Browning about 1987. Browning and Brown try to get together once a year during which they discuss paintings for Santa. Brown models as Santa and Browning photographs him in various situations. Later Browning completes the paintings. Browning has done over 150 paintings.
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| Tom Browning recently illustrated "The Night Before Christmas." It should be available October 2009. |
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| Additional material (Links) to other webs by Franz Brown. |
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You may see more Tom Browning Paintings of Santa and
his other fine artwork by going to his website. To find images of Brown as Santa look in the stores during the Christmas season. If you check the credits for the art and find Tom Browning's name. If you find Browning will probably have found one of the images Franz Brown modeled for. You can also use your search engine and look for Tom Browning. Cards are occasionally available through American Greetings, Leanin' Tree and Hallmark. Tom Browning's new book will soon be available.
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| Brown uses a number of stuffed animals in his paintings. Here you will be able to meet one. | |
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Meet Sidekick, Santa's Model |
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Santa
Claus Home :
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For information about paintings and photography by Franz Brown
go to Main Franz Brown home page |
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There is also more information on the images he has appeared in
on this site.
