Winter Wonderland

A little piece done in watercolor, ink pen and colored pencil. Around here it looks much like this!

Artist's Choice - Stephanie Ruble

My choice this week was to do a painting of a football playing moose that I had sketched a couple of years ago (and had always wanted to do something with).

Happy New Year!

Winter Activities - Stephanie Ruble

I painted this image at the beginning of the month for the Winter Activities prompt. Then I got an email from Illustration Friday with the prompt for this week, Phenomenon, which I thought also worked for this painting. It would be a big phenomenon if penguins started to ice skate! Maybe they’d even start a penguin Olympics! Okay, probably not. Here’s my penguin skating with his birdie friends:

Winter Wildlife - Stephanie Ruble

I was thinking about a girl starting to make a snowman when I wondered what would happen if a baby polar bear crossed her path.

I'd like to think they might be friends, that is if the mama bear or the girl's mother are not around.

December challenges and banner

I thought I'd post the challenges and the banner in case anyone wants to start painting before they have a chance to update the site.

December Challenges
1-7: Snowmen (traditional or unusual)
8-14: Winter Wildlife
15-21: Winter Activities
22-31: Artist's Choice To End The Year

The December banner (which inspired the first challenge) of snowmen made out of sand. It's snowing at the beach, which is hard to see in the small version, but will hopefully show up when the banner is live:

Snow Dog - sruble

The Snow Dog image and haiku I did a few years ago seem to fit the topic this week:

Here’s the haiku, in case you can’t read it in the image:

Big white puppy dog,

Looks just like a polar bear,

Likes to hide in snow

I’ve always liked this big white puppy dog and polar bears too.

What’s your favorite animal that likes snow?

Brrr...

Patrick, the very small polar bear, didn't mind the cold…

He could only think of lunch but where was he going to find a goldfish at this time of year?!

I recycled an old ink and bleach drawing by adding the goldfish.

Let it Snow