Art Bunny Christmas 2015

Phew! This past Christmas was certainly a busy one! I had lots of portrait orders, several of which were for overseas, which is always exciting. Also there was my annual Christmas baking bonanza, which as always was yummy!

Pet Portraits

Here is a selection of some of my favourite portraits that I created over Christmas 2015. My most popular medium was definitely colour pencil this year, and it was fun to do my first pug!

My absolute favourite portrait from Christmas, and now one of my all time favourites, is this black and white acrylic on canvas of Tilly the Westie. I've never done a portrait in black and white before and it was a lot of fun. I also enjoyed the challenge of trying to capture the blurred background as was in the original photo. I think I did a pretty good job. Definitely love this painting!

Tilly - A3 acrylic on canvas

You can see the other portraits I did on my Pets/Animals page.

Cake

As always I made two Christmas cakes to make sure there is plenty to go around. As I was a bit pushed for time this year I decided to go for some simpler designs. I made two snowmen; one had the traditional coal eyes and carrot nose, the other was an arts and craft snowman with a cotton reel for a nose and stitches and buttons and ribbons. 

I also made this Michael Kors handbag cake for a relative's birthday. It had silver balls and edible glitter, and though I was pretty much making it up as I went I think it turned out looking rather good.

(I think there were more of those silver balls on my kitchen floor than on the cake by the time I'd finished)

You can see more photos of my cakes on my
Cakes page.

Baubles

I did really well in the bauble department this Christmas. My music baubles proved really popular, and my Star Wars baubles sold out in a few days! Plus, of course, my annual shipment of doggy baubles made it's way to Christmas trees around the country. Here are a selection of some of my favourites.

So it was a very productive Christmas for me this time, and though I was very glad to be busy, I was sure grateful for the rest after it was over! Bring on Christmas 2016!