One Sketch 247) Reindeer (sort of) Christmas Card

Ho ho ho
But watch your back
And don't go near
The guy with the sack

This is my 25th Christmas card this year, so we're definitely getting there. One more, and I reach the target I set myself for November, and should have enough. Mind you, I'm giving the first of them tomorrow night at Artists Group, since its our last meeting until January.

One Sketch 246) Christmas Carollers card

What they said
Yesterday

Limited time and limited imagination combine for me to give you this. Still, nearly done with making Christmas cards for this year. I set myself the target of having 25 ready by the end of November - I already have 28, so I'm close to my second ary target of 30.

One Sketch 245) 2018 Christmas Card number 26 - Carollers

We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
Now make with the mince pies and mulled wine
Or we'll break your windows.

Up to 26 individual handmade cards ready now - although 4 of them are left over from last year's cards - so I've reached the target I set myself of having 25 cards ready by the end of November. So I set a new target of 30 by the end of the month now.

One Sketch 244 (TWO THIRDS OF A YEAR!) Cards based on Norman Rockwell originals

Norman Rockwell
Proof,
(If any should be needed)
That you don't need words
To be a Poet.

Yes, today we've actually completed slightly more than 2/3 of a year. 244 days is actually two thirds of a leap year, but then yesterday was just slightly less than two thirds. I don't really have time to get out my watercolours during the week, while I can make an ink sketch while sitting in front of the telly, but there really isn't an excuse during the weekend.

I set myself the target of having 25 cards done by the end of November. I've made 20 this year and had 4 left over of the cards I made last year, so I'm very nearly there. What I will try to do is make another 6 cards, which will mean that I've made 25 in November.

One Sketch 243) Thomas Nast inspired card (5)

Santa's mistiming his call
For a kid has climbed right up the wall
He sits on the stack
His sack on his back
And waits for the bugger to fall

What can I say - I just love Thomas Nast's work. He was the guv'nor.

One Sketch 242) Hipster Geting Pelted by Ugly Kids Christmas Card

See the hipster run.
Run hipster, run.
See the hipster mutter
Mutter Hipster, mutter!
See the hipster getting really pissed off.
Get really pissed off, Hipster, Get really pissed off!
See the hipster take a riding crop to those sodding kids.

Another Victorian engraving provided the base for this card.

One Sketch 241) (Weds 21st November) Christmas Card based on Thomas Nast Engraving

Santa has said with a groan
"Oh blimey, I'm not on my own"
I've come to a house
Where the cats crave a mouse
And the dog is expecting a bone."

Yep, the great Thomas Nast again. I set myself the target of making 25 cards before the end of November, and this is number 19. Getting there.