From Christmas trees to snowflakes, there are many images emblematic of the holiday season.
Among the sweetest, however, are surely the fun and festive drawings of wrapped candy by artist Lowell Tolstedt.
In colored-pencil drawings currently on view at Keny Galleries, Tolstedt offers striking close-up views of the sort of treats that many of us the artist included have sitting around the house at this time of year.
“Subject matter like that can sit there forever,” said Tolstedt, 81, the former fine arts dean at the Columbus College of Art & Design who relocated several years ago to New Bern, North Carolina.