Shhhhhhhhh......... Merry Christmas!!

Shhhhhh....

10 x 8, pastel

Wishing all a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!!

Third in a series of Christmas Santas, but the first pastel. This painting is my Christmas card and came about after a wonderful workshop in beautiful, rural, Junction, Texas with fabulous artist, Margaret Evans.

I am notorious for having a detailed drawing before I begin a painting.......not this time, no drawing. Following the block-in with pastel, as Margaret uses, this painting just flowed. That rarely happens, but so thrilled with the results of this one!! Thank you, Margaret!!!

Naughty or Nice.......

Naughty or Nice....

7" x 5", watercolor

Hopefully, everyone I have addresses for have received their Christmas card this year! If not, spoiler alert!!!! Been painting my Christmas cards for a number of years, but this is the second year for a Santa. My husband decided this was the one he preferred and wouldn't you know, his sister said he did indeed looks like a Naughty Santa with my husbands eyes!!!!!  No wonder he liked this pose!

With all the turmoil in the world, I am praying for God's Peace and Love for All!

Spoiler Alert--------Don't Look If.......

He Knows If..............

4.5 x 6.5, watercolor

So......if you are on my Christmas card list, your card will not be a surprise now! I was not going to send Christmas cards this year, just in one of those moods, you know! Well, after recuperating from 3 solid days of cooking and cleaning, and cooking and cleaning some more, the mood hit last night!

For the last 8 or 10 years I have painted my own cards. This practice was started by taking a workshop with Angie Banta Brown. In that first workshop, we created 8 cards in 6 hrs!. The paint was flying! With successive workshops she toned it down to 4 in 6 hrs! Love and miss that sweet lady!

So, due to the detail of this one, it took me several hours to complete, but I am pleased with the result. I was always told that Santa sees all, so, " you better be good for goodness sake!"

Santa Spinner

Santa Spinner

10 x 8, pastel

I know, I know it is not even Thanksgiving yet. Not a fan of the early Christmas commercials either, but one has to get a step ahead if one is painting their own Christmas cards!!

Was at a total loss for what to paint this year. Was thinking about a Santa and when going through photos on the internet, saw a cute photo of a dog in a Santa hat. Well, we have just about the cutest dog I know and we have a Santa hat! Soooooooooooooo!

I have since tweaked the painting but had to get the order for cards in ASAP. And it is a gray day, not a good one to take photos of paintings---so enjoy Santa Spinner! 

I'm Still Here!

Harvest

15 x 11, watercolor

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did!

If this painting looks familiar, it is. This is my watercolor rendition of Bountiful Harvest, the pastel painting that won an award in North Carolina. I haven't been painting this week, been down in my get-along, as my dad would say. So I had to pull out a painting from the summer. I was worried about getting the patina on the kettle to some out ok in watercolor, but I think it turned out pretty good. I also added the folds in the fabric that the pastel painting did not have.

I have painted a Christmas card to reproduce for the last several years, and I am hoping to get that done soon!!!! Time is running out, I am thinking.