Sktchy Secret Santa

The folks at Sktchy had a really neat idea this year. They asked artists to do a Secret Santa art swap. We didn’t know who our Secret Santa was nor did we know what photos they would choose to draw.

My Secret Santa recipient, Jeff Smithson, dresses as a clown a lot. Judging by the amount of photos he had, he looked like someone who dressed up to cheer up patients in hospitals. I found one photo of him without clown makeup and I did that as my Secret Santa.

Then, since he likes to dress up as a clown, I took one of his clown photos and turned it into a Santa clown.

Last but not least, my Secret Santa gift giver, Amanda Ross, did this awesome portrait of Chloe and Mack. I still need to get a frame for it but I just love this! It’s sooooo Chloe and Mack. Apparently Amanda has Chihuahuas so it made it easy for her to nail this one! She had their personalities pegged. It makes me happy just to look at it.

One more day until Christmas!

Old time Santas

Sorry folks. Been sick since Sunday. I did manage to sketch some of our holiday Santas in the short bouts of being alert. I just had no energy to post it here. Good thing all of my presents are wrapped. I need to do food shopping but most of my holiday shopping is done.

These Santas are representations of period Santas. I don’t know much about them, I think they are ornaments. John had some and I had some. We don’t use them as ornaments.

Each one has a different personality, which is cool, they aren’t cookie cutter Santas.

If you could design the perfect super hero cape….

I take Carla Sonheim’s year long 365 class. It’s probably one of the best on line creative workshops out there. (Next is Sally Swindell’s Card making Workshop). Carla teaches a lot of really great creative prompts.

Today’s prompt was to design the perfect super hero cape. She gave us a worksheet and we are supposed to use it to create our version.

Here is mine and I hope you feel the same way about it as I do. I think it would be the perfect Christmas/Holiday gift.

My superhero cape heals the ills of this planet.

In a perfect world there is peace and harmony.

People respect the planet, live in small footprint homes, use reusable bags, walk or ride bikes more. Polar bears wouldn’t be starving, there would be no need to remind people to save the whales because we would be focused on saving and respecting everything. With everyone respecting Mother Earth, there would be no issues with war, race and religion. People would get along and work together because they realized that if we fight among each other the planet can’t be saved. They would plant trees together, they wouldn’t over harvest the ocean and planet. They would find alternatives to fossils fuels and all would be well. That’s what my cape would do.

Sketch Night sketches

With the days being shorter and colder, our sketch club has been sketching at the local library. Yesterday evening we sketched some holiday plants. I clipped some branches from our holly tree. Someone else brought poinsettias. There was candy and mints (drat, I forgot to bring some of those home for John!) and other goodies to sketch. Here are my two from last night.