Days of December Collage

I just finished 31 days of December.  It was a lot of fun.  I used a 5x5 hand book sketchbook. One of my favorites. I had a list on World of Watercolor on Face Book.  I used ink, watercolor, gouache and even some Casein.  Gold ink as well as black.
It was fun.  There are a few that I didn't get done. It is hard to get one done each day.  I sketch at night, so sometimes it would be 11:00 before I was finishing.

Catching up

Well I missed day 10 and 12 so here is Day 11 and 13.
Day 10 was supposed to be a sweater
Day 11 was the Poinsettia
Day 12 was a Cake
and Day 13 Lights.
On the Poinsettia I put down reds and yellows along with splatters.
Then after dried I drew the flower with ink and painted with watercolor.
For Day 13 i wanted my lights to be different, so I added the cotton and called it the color of cotton. I miss farming. We grew cotton for 40 years, and I love seeing the harvest. 

Days 7, 8 and 9

Is hard to post a picture each day, and i get behind!
Here are Days 7,8 and 9.
I looked up the song, 'I heard the Bells on Christmas Day' and was surprised to find out Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote it as a poem as his son was injured in the Civil war and he was taking care of him.  I was touched by the story and all the words. Especially the last two stanzas.
The challenge was draw a bell.  Day 8 was a red bird, and Day 9 was a fireplace.  The fireplace was drawn with an elegant writer and i kept it all black except for the wreath. I just wanted to do something different.

December Challenge

December Challenge is drawing, sketching or painting something each day that pertains to Christmas or Winter.  There is a list online, and I will try to follow it.

Day 1 was peppermint.  I didn't want to do something normal. How many ways can you paint a candy cane or a star light mint, so I decided to do something more fun.  This is called 'Peppermint Farm
and it makes cute Christmas cards.  It is done in a 5x5 Sketchbook, then i removed the middle of the pages with adobe photoshop.