Secret Garden #8 - A Christmas Doily

 Well, well, what do you know?  I've put down my colour pencils for more than 3 years now I just realised (looking at the date of my last piece)! >_<  That's quite like me, I go gung ho in the beginning with most of my projects but tend to not see them out (you can revisit my previous colouring works here).

With Christmas just around the corner, the festivity was obviously the inspiration for this piece.  After all, tis' the season to be jolly.....and God knows we need a little bit of that after almost a year of upended lives (and livelihood) caused by the global pandemic.

So I decided to colour this piece like a Christmas doily!  What better then to go with the traditional Christmas colours of red and green (I only had 4 shades of red and 5 shades of green to work with).  And if you see some uncoloured parts, they were deliberately left that way to mimic the look of a crocheted Christmas doily. :P

Since this piece is still life, no shading is necessary to make the subject look real (or as real as possible).  So, it ended up to be the easiest piece I've coloured so far...but also the most boring....lol! :D

Only a little bit of creativity was needed to pair and match the different shades of red and green together.  There.....my pretend Christmas Doily is finished. ^_~

As we near the end of a roller-coaster year, I'm more than happy to see the back of a gloomy 2020 but also thankful to have come through it safely thus far.  So, here's wishing you some Christmas cheer & joy (even if it's just a little bit)!

And we welcome a hopeful new year, hopeful that the end of the pandemic is near as vaccines roll out.....and we can eventually return to some form of normalcy.

In the meantime, let's stay resilient and continue to mask up and adhere to social distancing if you have plans to celebrate the year end festivities with family & friends..... stay safe & take care.

Merry Christmas everyone! ^o^