I’m a day late.  Sorry.  Work and life happened.  And I decided I wasn’t going to rush the picture just to post it on the date.  sigh  This IS supposed to be fun after all.  SO, I give you my latest Holidoodle “Oh Christmas Tree.” Continue reading →

I hope some of you will join me in posting here or other places (Instagram? Twitter?) for this tiny series of illustrations.  Here’s my first picture in the series: Continue reading →

Finally, here’s the last prompt.  I tried to think of something I hadn’t shown with a child already and this is what I came up with. Continue reading →

There are so many different ways I could’ve gone with this.  BUT I decided I didn’t want to do anything too elaborate.  Continue reading →

I had a harder time with this one, but then I started to think about who really expresses this emotion this time of year: kids.  And rather than show what they were wondering at, I wanted to focus on that expression.  It was helpful that I saw one such kiddo at the Christmas Eve candlelight ceremony last night, gleefully playing with paper of all things.  And I thought of her little face: Continue reading →

Soooo I got behind.  I’m a terrible contest host.  I’m sorry.  I didn’t expect school to be quite that intense this last week and I completely forgot about family visiting out of town and presents that needed to get finished (us creative types like to make them, you know).  I’m sure I’m NOT alone in this.  The holidays have gotten to many of us.  I hope they find you happy and well.  I will be catching up on these prompts myself and notifying a winner within the next few days.  Here is my doodle for “elf.” Continue reading →

It really doesn’t help to have a prompt if you’ve already used it as a background for something else.  Trying to come up with something fresh for the same topic is more of a challenge.   Continue reading →

I admit that this was NOT the easiest prompt for me.  I had NOTHING for inspiration.  THUS it is a day late.   Continue reading →

What better surprise is there around Christmas time? Continue reading →