#christmas card watercolor paintings

[bklenk]

Tree of my day December 3rd 2023 🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄

[imagine-darksiders]

Painted mum’s Christmas card this year.

‘This year…’ she says, like I haven’t done this every year since I was 3.

[watercolourcritters]

May this holiday season treat you gently, lovelies <3

Now that it's December, I am going to be posting my holiday art over the next three weeks - if you need to avoid winter holiday content, the tag to block is #christmas!

This one is also available as a card in my Etsy shop, and I would happily turn the art minus text into a print if there's interest!

Instagram | Etsy

[ID copied from Alt Text: A watercolour painting of a red fox sitting on a snowy hill at night time, with gentle snow covered hills behind it. The sky is dark blue with patches of purples, teals, and greens, and is lighter towards the horizon, reminiscent of the northern lights. A large golden star hangs in the sky. Text underneath reads "Hope for a gentle holiday season <3." The artist's signature reads @ watercolour critters. End ID.]

[rararatigan]

It christmas card

“Just hear those sleigh bells hurgling rurg turg turgling”

[um-yesplease-photography]

29/12/23

Lovely little A5 christmas cards this year. Metallic watercolour details in gold and silver. A little late, but better late than never.

[artwithana]

Happy holidays

[mosartwork]

"Robin': A Festive Snowbird Serenade" In this artwork, a cheerful little robin sings out, sharing the joyful news of a new season amid the cold embrace of snowy winter.

[makinguselessthings]

Most of my watercolor designs come in this form. I like a large piece of watercolor paper and I settle in and play around with ideas. I love how many of these turned out. Each one is scanned and edited through Photoshop into its final phase. I love that I can get multiple designs from just a few quick paintings. I am also obsessed with how these turned out. A few of the designs didn't quite make it to becoming cards - like the popcorn string with cranberries and oranges :( But I can always hold onto those and refine the designs for next year.

Also shout out to my favorite colors of watercolor: blue!

[juliusllopis]

A christmas card.

Linktree

[sirgiant-blog-blog]

Another watercolor winter scene that will be somebody’s Christmas card.

[bklenk]

Tree of my day December 16th, 2023 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

[pchuaymee]

Happy Lunar New Year 2024!

新年快乐 2024！

Hi, dudes! It's me again.

While I was drawing this, my felt to got ideas block and exhausted very much to I will paint it with watercolor. Thus, I painted it with ink pens instead.

For Tibet fan art, I got reference from my oracle card in Tibetan culture theme as this:

And I will tell fun fact a few things about beliefs in Lunar New Year.

Don't cleaning in house, apartment, or accomodations in evening until to night on normal days or during celebration in new year and any festival that is not only belief in China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea. Thailand and India are believing this too. Because in the past, it was not existed to use electric in night. It makes you throw something is value this such as jewelry, gold or silver accessories, or coins. And also, many ppl always clean their house or accomodations in festival eve day or after festival day. Because nobody else do it while you are enjoying to celebrating in during day, right? They are feeling that too. LOL.

For Japanese Lunar New Year (Japanese is called "Shougatsu" 「正月: しょうがつ。: Shōgatsu」) , in the past. They were celebrating in lunar calendar in every year, but the after in 1873 AC. They are celebrating on 1st January in every year. Thus, Celebrating Japanese lunar new year in Japan which is celebrating new year of many countries too.

For Thai ppl who are not Thai-Chinese or Chinese in Thailand, they are can enjoy with this festival too. Because some Thai culture and Chinese culture are seeming similar such as praying for ancestors, respectful with family or someone who are seniors, and beliefs about position their house or accommodation. And also, Thai ppl are always be enjoy with festival which popular from other countries such as Christmas, Halloween, Lunar new year, Celebrating moon cake, or Navratri. Unless, some festival which restricted for Islamic, Christian, or some ppl who are minority in Thailand that mainly ppl or normal ppl cannot to be enjoying for celebrating with their festival too.

And I don't have any ideas unless I will say to you word that is I am always heard many ppl who are Thai-Chinese and Chinese in Thailand are said that

“新正如意，新年发財！” ❤️

[tangerinesperfume]

What would Tara and Sam do to surprise the other? Like would they pick out a gift or plan a special day?

This actually took me a minute to think about but I can imagine the following:

Sam to Tara:

Tara is a young kid who lacks a lot of exposure to world and since kids loves gifts and surprises, it’s actually pretty easy to get her happy and excited over them.

Sam knows that Tara was pretty much isolated growing up so she takes note of what Tara seems interested in or fascinated by like certain places or animals or toys or anything.

Sam surprises Tara with experiences; she takes her to aquariums, arcades (when it’s not crowded so she doesn’t get overwhelmed), beaches, pet shelters because Tara loves to pet the kittens there, cinema, and those types of things.

Tara to Sam:

Due to her age, she can’t exactly drive herself to the shops or have enough money to buy nice things by herself, sam has to be there to do that but that ruins the surprise.

However, Tara is very crafty and artsy and Sam bought a lot of those art kits like watercolors, paints, crayons, glitter…the whole shabang. So, she makes cards and drawings for Sam and sometimes, Sidney helps her make those extra artsy pieces that make 3d shapes.

Sam absolutely loves them. You see, Sam always assumed that she was someone who could only appreciate the tangible and physical things, not in a materialistic way, but in a “I have to see it and own it in front of me for it to be real.”. She has a hard time warming up to sentimental things.

But Tara completely changed that about her, she feel the love and gratitude exuding from Tara’s pretty cards and drawings especially when she hangs them and they bring a warmth in her that’s like hot choco on Christmas winter nights.

And Tara is very perceptive of Sam’s feelings so when she figured out that Sam feels particularly proud of Tara when she overcomes a new milestone, it motivates her to do more.

So when Tara started getting better in reading, one night she went over to Sam in the couch to sit next to her, holding Dr.Seuss’s “I am Sam” and Sam asked her if she wanted any help with reading it but Tara said no.

Sam almost burst with pride and happiness and surprise when Tara started going page by page, reading the book with relative ease. It was a special day for both of them.

[coydahlia]

Practicing a watercolor effect for a Christmas card. Not that Dean would ever risk Baby’s paint job….

[ladydorian-can-art]

Galaxy-themed Christmas cards that I painted for @t-v-r-n, @ithinkwehitametaphor and another friend! I'm happy to have so many awesome ppl in my life! ^___^

~watercolor & acrylic ink + India ink on the last card

[vicekillx]

what is you favourite colour? What is your favourite colour to work with in a painting? What is a colour that you can never seem to get right in a painting? What's your favourite place that you've been to?

ooooh these are interesting!

My favorite color is the shade of pink that's on Vice and all my branding lol. Runners up include baby pink, black, neon green, and electric blue

Digitally I like using really saturated red. There's a particular range of red hues and values that I call Horny Red. When I break out the watercolors, my favorite is probably Hooker's green or Payne's grey

I dunno about a single color, but I struggle with green-red complimentary color schemes. It's so hard to keep it from looking like Christmas while also making sure the red is saturated enough to look like red

My favorite place I've been to....the Mayan ruins at Tulúm. Most incredible post card views, beautiful beach, iguanas everywhere, and seeing hundreds or thousands of years old human handprints on a stone wall is one of the most profound experiences i've ever had