It is Christmas, the magic is there in the home, the garden and the paper. Make your creative juices come into play. Give your rusted brain, thoughts to put in practice. Not all of us are great cooks. Not many of us can decorate our Christmas tree with grandeur.
Lavish Christmas decor and crafts can get complicated. Not pencil and crayons. You just need paper and some trivial, thrifty drawing tools. You will come to love and rely on the pencil and crayons to work their magic in Christmas drawings.
Although Nature’s true intricate forms are too enigmatic to recreate. Drawings can reproduce the difference of object’s images and shadows and perhaps the complicated shades of lights and contrasts. Pencils and crayons have limitations. Water colour and oil can come to rescue.
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What is your favourite activity for Christmas?
Blackspanielgallery - I like the idea of rock painting. With brilliant colours, the rocks can shine with luminous lustre in different lights. They look amazing and are cost effective.
I like the rock paintings, since they can be kept for future years. They can be as decorative as ceramic Christmas decorations, and cost much less.
DerdriuMarriner - Well, red waters and green skies were rarely seen by me. But I understand if there is an urge for the inside artist to paint them this way. Thanks for bringing out when this can happen in Nature. I like your idea of compiling Christmas activities and making it family affair that can carry on, year after year for generations to see.
WriterArtist, Thank you for the practicalities and products.
It amuses me that you advise against green skies -- precursors to thunderstorms at best and tornadoes at worst -- and red waters -- indicators of algal blooms or excessive iron.
One of the artists I've met brought up free-hand drawings, as opposed to coloring books, as to how and why she became a creative professional. She encouraged her daughter (who became a doctor!) and her grandchildren to do likewise.
So this Christmas activity really gladdens me. It's something that can be compiled Christmas after Christmas as part of family histories.