Xmas Card

Cartoon transferred.  Carving begins.

Carvity-carve.

Time for a break.

BW ~ More Variations

Coloring a print of a bw/color.

This one came out looking a bit green in the tree.  Gives me an idea.  What if I do 2 blocks, one with just the tree in green, one w/o the tree in bw with color tapped in?

Still fighting with the concept of color when my affinity is for bw.

I can do a foreground and a background block.  Foreground is everything but tree and table.  Background is table (red?) and tree (green).  BW foreground gets tapped in color.

B&W Variations

B&W with red ornaments and candy cane and brown gingerbread castle.  Rest is simply b&w, in spite of the blue cast.  Table might have wooden texture.  Color tapped in.

Another idea:  strictly b&w with white areas to be water-colored afterward.  (Actually the original idea.)

Cartoon Reversed (Carve Me)

Be sure to carve the reversed image!  Castle should be backwards.

Trim on the Rim

Not bad.  I like the holly.  Ornaments have to be smaller.  I'm liking it.

Sketching Composition

Zeroing in on the composition and the elements.  A couple pencil sketches w/ crayon.

Another possible element is a xmasy trim around the plate ~ holly and berries.

Can't seem to stop messing.

This is with a yellow trim on the plate and a yellow xmas ball.

More Mug Sketches

Pencil sketch w/ colored pencil.  Thought I could darken the color in Paint Shop, but I think I need to color darker (or switch to crayon).

Plate to big.

Same sketch, reworked.

And again.