December begins today, and it means Christmas is coming, at last! It's my favourite time of the year! So I decided to make something special to give as Christmas cards to my friends and family. it was hard to decide what was going to be the situation portrayed in the drawing, and after much sketching the best choice was to show kids decorating a Christmas tree and their grandma coming closer with snacks. Childhood, happiness, family, joy and Christmas all together in the same image! I tried to show something simple and happy, naive kids, probably brothers or cousins in their grandma's house having fun together, preparing themselvem for the near Christmas! It's in part based on my life and part was chosen to chance. At first there shoulld be only two kids, but I decided to add a third one, then a grandma, then a dog and a cat and make everything a bit messy, trying to imagine how would it be a place with all these people and animals and stuff everywhere in a quite magical time. Easygoing children having fun before Christmas! I can't imagine other situation to represent this time of the year. I had dozens of ideas, but none was better the this, the simpler one.
Hope you like it! And have a merry Christmas!
Technique: watercolor and gouache on A3 size paper. I tried to use pastels and shades of grey in order to create this idea of "nostalgia" again, like if it is an old and foggy memory from years ago.
