Merry Christmas 2013!!

It's been a hectic week, finishing up clay orders, trying to squeeze in my runs, and all the many christmas responsibilites.....somw of which still need to be taken care of and it's 11:45 Christmas Eve!! It is going to be a late night, one of many this month. I managed to fit my Santas in, one a day more or less. Here are the ones completed this week.

Santa #19 ~pencil&marker

Santa #20 ~ marker, pastels

Santa #21 ~pencil, marker, pastels

Santa #22 ~ marker, pencil, pastel

Santa # 23 ~ marker, micron, pastel

Santa #24 ~ acrylic, pastels

Merry Christmas....have a wonderful day! Planning to sit with my feet up with a magazine at some point tomorrow!!!

Santas 17 & 18

17 ~ copics, pastel pencils

18 ~ quick pencil and marker sketch

one week and counting til Santa's big day!

Santa #16

It does not seem possible that we are half way through the month of December!

Weekend Santas

squeezed in a few extra minutes this weeekend to do these 2:

Santa # 14 ~ acrylics, pencil, pastels on canvas board

 Santa # 15 ~copics, pastels, micron on paper

Santas 11, 12 &13

#11 ~copics & pastels

#12 ~copics, pastels & micron

# 13 ~ polymer clay

Have a wonderful weekend!

2 weeks (and 1 day) to the BIG DAY!

Santa #10 ~faux chalkboard

ho ho ho. . . is your shopping done yet?!

Santas 8 & 9

It was a busy weekend! On top of everything else going on, we decided to move all of my art stuff, which has been slowly taking over the living space in our family room. While it is a good size room, it feels tiny with all of us plus the dogs and all my junk packed in it.....so we spent the entire sunday moving and setting up a studio in a spare room....which housed most of my supplies anyways...more on this later, with pictures!

And today was a snow day.....a full house! Here are my santas from the past 2 days....both dobe in my new studio YAY!!

#8 ~ acrylics on paper

#9 ~ copics, pastel pencils

Santa catch-up

Only the first week and I am already playing catch-up! So here are a few from the past 3 days.
All done with copics, pastel pencils, 7 black micron.

Santa # 5

Santa #6

Santa # 7

Thanks for looking!

Santa #4 and company

I sketched the icons quickly on graph paper and photocopied them, colored with copics, cut them out and glued them down....voila! Quick and fun. I like the rough pencil lines and grid lines peaking through here and there. Then I played around with the background color in photoshop. The white background is the original.

Slowly acquiring some ps skills!! Taking a course in January, watching lots of tutorials right now.

In clay news....2 more days of free shipping in my shop! Stop in and grab some stocking stuffers : )

Santa #3

Happy December & Happy Cyber Monday!

Free shipping in the shop on party favors, pendants, bow centers with the coupon code FREESHIPPING at checkout today through 12/6! Come by and see what's new!

Project Santa has started! One Santa per day for the month of December

....here is yesterday's Santa....enjoy!

and one for today