Today I’m painting three warm and cosy Christmas stockings perfect for hanging in front of a roaring log fire on Christmas Eve. Santa has already been and filled the stockings to bursting, but now the local Mouse Family has arrived and is checking out the contents!
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For this painting I used a sheet of Etchr watercolor paper, my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours and some small round brushes. To finish off the stockings I embellished them with Kuretake Starry Colors gold watercolor paint, and Uniball white and gold pens. The line work was done with a Staedtler Pigment Liner and a Sigma Micron waterproof pen.
You can download the sketch for this painting here: Christmas Stockings and Mouse Sketch.
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