Good day to all!
Today I want to show you a small Christmas illustration, which I drew as the basis for a Christmas card.
Painted with alcohol and watercolor markers in a sketchpad.
Drew the contours with a pencil.
Started to paint from the background. The background of the picture is rather abstract, I painted it with a umber color marker, and with bright yellow and orange shades I drew bright highlights from the festive garlands.
Then I drew a glass of mulled wine. I used markers of brown and orange shades, for the image of glass I took gray, blue and yellow shades of markers.
Also drew a slice of orange on the edge of the glass and cinnamon.
Painted over Christmas cookies, gingerbread and an apple. I tried to use the same colors of markers to combine all the objects in the picture.
I drew all the other items in the picture - a branch of Christmas trees, cinnamon, cookies, walnuts, a fir cone and berries.
At the final stage, painted the table with markers of shades of ocher, khaki, and umber.
Enhanced details, shadows and contrast, added light highlights to the white gel pen.
After scanning, I blurred the distant plan to focus the gaze on the main objects of the drawing.
Since the illustration will be used for postcards, I added a greeting inscription in the editor. But the final print version will be different.
Thank you for attention!
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Amazing painting :) Love it :)
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Really colorful and echoes the holidays well. I like how the highlights make the entire piece look very vibrant, really festive. :D
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STOPI love all your paintings but this one is my absolute favorite. I would wish to receive such a postcard for Christmas :)
The blurry background is perfect. It looks like you took a photo and focused on the things in front. Very nice.. I like how you created different lights as well.
All these items that you painted make me think of Christmas. You took everything what symbolizes this festive period for me. I can't think of anything else what I would add.
Each item is painted to the perfection. The colors and the details are spot on. There is such a nice warm feeling about your postcard.
Thank you for sharing and making me feel like it's Christmas already ;)
Have a great weekend!
From beautiful hand made greeti g cards to this lovely postcard. Since the begining of december, all these things are quitely be seen everywhere.
I remember the childhood days, when we excitedly prepare some freeting cards using farden flower or hand painting...though it was not so beautiful like you made it. This one is superbly done...loved it..wish to get one. I woyld suggest to open. Postcard shop on steem for everyone to biy them ...a good lucrative business offer 😉
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I always admire that kind of step-by-step posts. It is a great idea with taking photos after a milestones on the picture :)
I love the final effect, colors are really neat and warm, apple looks almost real !
And in a such cold day like today I just dream about such a tasty, warming up cup of hot tea with cinnamon and orange.
¡Hola @kleonella! Esa postal esta bellísima, las luces y el volumen están muy bien, ¿Has tenido clases de dibujo? o ¿Aprendiste por tu cuenta? dibujas y pintas muy lindo, gracias por compartir, otra pregunta ¡Cuéntame! ¿Cuál fue tu emoción con el voto Curie? (sonrisa, risa, llanto, saltos, aplausos, abrazos, etc) Un fuerte pero cariñoso abrazo.
Wow that use of watercolors so perfect, I love how you see especially the glass and that bright effect in each element is spectacular .. I love Christmas and so far is the first Christmas drawing I see on the platform, and I love it .. A big hug @kleonella
it was so cute... now I wanna taste that tea.
I love it.
Nicely done! This illustration looks so festive and warm, I like the blurry orange background and the overall redness of this painting.
Congratulations for your curie vote =).
That is very festive New Year card, I remember as a child we had presents from school and there were always apples, walnuts and oranges, this combination is always associated for me with New Year, even sometimes when I have them throughout the year, there is a moment that I just catch myself on that thought. I like the still like on your card and obviously having a nice hot tea (in your case I believe it is cold tea) with lemon and some biscuits is great option, I would imagine that there is a fire place too. Thank you for this beautiful card.
I can feel the Christmas and New Year festivity in your artwork @kleonella! Lovely, lovely colouring :) I really like the blurred glitter in the background and the branch of Christmas trees, cinnamon, cookies, walnuts, a fir cone and berries look really pretty and realistic. And it is so fun to see your own artwork in actual postcards :)
What a lovely new year postcard, @kleonella ! I've been really enjoying all of your festive illustrations :D They carry so much joy and beautiful spirits with them <3
Howdy from Texas kleonella! Oh this is a remarkable piece, it almost looks like a 3d painting the way the background sets the items up. It makes a perfect postcard and is a wonderful post!