Postcards to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Last year I didn't get a chance to send out any New Year's greeting postcards and the year turned out to be in many ways a complete disaster so in order not to run the risk of jinxing 2021, here goes... Besides, I have several pads of postcard paper I've been meaning to try out and I'm also aiming to take the time to use all the art supplies I've accumulated over the years. 

 

"Christmassy Cardinal" to try oil on gessoed Harris postcard paper,

 based on a photo by Vanessa Mullins Hollan in the Free Reference Photos for Artists FB group.

 

After starting the cardinal in colored pencil this time, 

I added a chicken using a Pentel brushpen.

 

Sunset in the park in colored pencil on Harris pc paper This is based on a photo by Moragh Dann in the EARL FB group..

 

"Sunflower in watercolor" using a reference photo 

by Ilona E. Stefan, from the Free reference photos for artists FB group.

"Snow in the village", watercolor and colored pencil
on Harris postcard paper, based on photo by Ilona E Stefan,
from the Free reference photos for artists FB group.

Copy in water color pencil and colored pencil
on Harris pc paper,

 of painting by Ludwig Munthe.

 

Also a copy of Ludwig Munthe in water color pencil
on Harris postcard paper.

 

Another one based on a FB group photo (by Pam Fretwell in EARL), using

gel pens, Rapidograph, and colored pencil on Harris postcard paper.

 

"A white bouquet" sketched with Rapidograph,

 from a private photograph on Harris postcard paper.

A viral cartoon for January 2021.

Rapidograph and ink wash on Harris pc paper.

 

 

My first attempt at the Tonalist group's challenge 

to interpret a snowy winter landscape by Edward Seagro
(watercolor on Daler Rowney postcard paper for watercolors).

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