Winter Gnome

Hi!
I hope you had a nice Christmas.
Maybe Santa brought you some Copic markers?

I love when I stumble upon some stamps that I haven´t seen before. I found a set of four gnomes on Facebook and I fell in love at once. My first impression was that they were spring or summer images.
But I wanted them on my Christmas cards and I want to show how I made a winter scene from one of the images.



First I made a summer scene.
Skin: E000 - E11 - R02 - E50
Hair: Y32 - E31 - E35
Clothes: R81 - R83 - R85 - R89, B000, E70 - E71
Fly agaric: R05 - R08 - R46 - R89, E41 - E42 - E43
Bird: R24 - C1 - C3 - C5 - Y17
Water: BG70 - BG72 - BG11 - B0000
Greenery: YG11 - YG25 - YG17 - YG61, G43 - G24 - YG67
Tree trunks: E42 - E43, E25 - E59 - E49
Rocks: T0 - T1 - T3 - T5
Sky: B0000 - B00

As you can see she is holding a dandelion. But I masked it so she just holds the stem.

Sketched in my  scene with C0.

Moon and sparkler: Y00
Sky: B91 - B93
Birches: E40

Moon: E70
Sky: B95 - B97
Birches: C1 - C3 - C5
Snow: B41 - B45 - B0000

Skin: E000  - BV20 - E11 - R02 - Y00
Top hat and skirt: R35 - R37 - R89
Vest: YG61 - YG7
Apron: C3 - C0
Hair: E08 - E19 - E29
Fly agaric: R05 - R08 - R46 - T5,  C2 - C0, E40 - E41 - E42 - E44
Bird: C1 - C2 - C3, R35, Y17, Y00

So I imagine her laying there on the fly agaric on new years eve, celebrating with a sparkler.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

I wish you all
A SPARKLING, HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Love
Helen

Santa's Watching

Hi! Helen here today

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Christmas is coming! Have finished your Christmas cards? I will show you a Santa today. I bought the stamp on Facebook so I don´t know the brand but I love it!!



As I always do, I stamped the image on Perfect Coloring Paper used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad.

I sketched in my background with C0.

House: E23
Fence: E79
Snow: C1

Sky: B93 - B95 - B97
Trying to get it to glow from the house.

House: E29 - E25
Window: Y21 - Y15 - Y17 - YR14
Glow on the roof: Y21 - Y17
Glow on the fence: Y21
Snow: B91

Road: B41
Shadow in snow: C3 - Blender

Road: B45
Snow: C3 - C2 - Blender

Road: C3 - C2
Footprints: B45 - B97
Pine trees: C7
Snow: B70

Skin: E000 - BV20

Skin: E11 - R02

Sweater and woolen cap: R05

Sweater and woolen cap: R35

Sweater and woolen cap: R89 - R37, C3 - C1 - C5, Blender
Glow: Y21

Gloves and boots: C3 - C7 - C5
Pants: E23 - E29 - E25
Socks: C1 - C3 - R37
Beard: W0 - W3 - W1
Lantern: C3 -C7 - C5, Y21 - Y17 - YR14 - YR04

Road: B95 - B97

Here you got some options.
Just leave it as it is.
Make a bright stary night sky.
Or...

Just cover the whole image with snow.
It´s perfect if there are parts in your colouring that didn´t end up as you wanted it. Just remember to break some lines, and in front of your subject. I usually don´t put snow in the face of my image.

I made some snow just because I love when it snows. Snow comes with peace as it never is otherwise.
I made the snow with a Gelly Roll Dark White pen. 

Hope Santa will pay you a visit before we´ll meet again.
I wish you all a Happy Colourful Christmas.

Love
Helen

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