One Sketch 268) (Tuesday 18th December) Last Minute Christmas card

Ah, the innocent pleasures
Of yesteryear
Snowman building
Snowball fights
And double pneumonia

How ironic. You may remember me making a ton of Christmas cards back in November. I took them into work to give to friends and colleagues yesterday. I had the mortifying experience of being one short. The prompt on Sketching Every Day was Snowman or Snow woman, so there at least was the inspiration for a desperate frantic lunch hour spent sketching to make this one. Not too shabby.

One Sketch 267) Trolls Kissing Under Mistletoe

Don't matter how ugly you are
Mistletoe is a great
Leveller.

The prompt for today on Sketching Every Day - Holiday traditions.

One Sketch 266 (99 DAYS ONLY TO GO!) Copy of Anita Jeram Picture

It's a dog's life
And sometimes
That ain't so bad a thing.

The prompt for today was the work of Anita Jeram, so I made this copy of a picture which I think is rather wonderful in its own quiet way.

One Sketch 265) (Saturday 15th December) Alastair Sim as Scrooge

Ah, the unreformed miser!

Worry not, old misanthrope

The ghosts are on their way.

The prompt yesterday was Holiday Movies. For me Christmas ain't really Christmas if I don't get to see at least one version of A Christmas Carol. The best version of the novel - and one surprisingly fair to the spirit of the story (which is NOT a novel!) is the Muppets' Christmas Carol. But the best portrayal of Scrooge in my opinion is Alastair Sim's.

One Sketch 264 (Friday 14th December) Monkey Magic

Born from an egg on a mountain top

- Pull the other one, mate

It's got bells on.

This one was prompted by the 14th December prompt on Sketching Every Day - Monkey. I wrote - I wonder how many British members are old enough to remember a TV series from the early 1980s called 'Monkey'. It was a Japanese TV series redubbed into English. It concerned the adventures of the Monkey God - seen here - sentenced by Heaven to accompany the monk Tripitaka on his journey to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from India. It was absolutely brilliant - a real cult at the time.

One Sketch 263) (Thursday 13th December) Hogwarts

I guess I would quite like to tarry
Like Hermione, Ron and Harry

Like I said, when I was scratching my head for a subject for a sketch on Thursday, the resemblance of the gingerbread walled town to Hogwarts had planted a seed which grew to fruition in this.

One Sketch 262) (weds 12th) Gingerbread Town

Gingerbread's fine
It's taste - superial
But isn't the greatest
Building material

Prompt from Sketching Every Day - gingerbread house. Being the show off that I am, I had to try to go a bit better than  mere house. When I'd finished this it suddenly struck me that this resembled Hogwarts a little. Which sowed a seed for the next day .. .