Today.I am sharing my Christmas sketches with you. Mainly food.

Did you sketch over Christmas, or perhaps have a quiet time now to yourself and have plans to sketch?.

I bought myself a lobster to sketch and eat on Christmas Day. I have never observed a lobster so carefully before. Actually I have never observed a lobster at all. I have been wanting to sketch one each Christmas for the past few years, but they were SO expensive at the markets. This was from Coles and I am so glad I bought it. Beautiful and fascinating – a work of art in nature.

If it did not smell so fishy I would have studied and sketched it over many more days.

I have added the colours I used as I experimented.

Then turned it over.

This was the slow start to Christmas Day, with Festive socks and a colourful coffee cup.

Sparkling wine and chilled Advent tea. A Christmas tradition.

Little bear sits on top of my little tree.

My Christmas pudding and after eating a bit. It will stay in the fridge for a few days as I don’t think I will be eating much for a while. I am so full.

I met up with some UK sketching friends on Zoom and we chatted and sketched for about 1 1/2 hours. The theme was sketch your leftovers.

I hope that you have had a good Christmas break and managed a bit of sketching. Perhaps you have a new sketchbook !

If you have been inspired by this and are in Melbourne, join me in one of three in person classes. Travel Sketching with Watercolour Pencils. No experience required – just enthusiasm and curiousity.