It’s become my own personal tradition that each year, I draw my daughter’s Christmas stocking: a record of all those gifts of chocolate, stationery and small toys that Santa brings. He’s a clever man, that Santa: each year, his choices seem to accord directly with my daughter’s changing fads and preferences. In this, her 13thContinue reading “My daughter’s 2017 stocking”
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My daughter’s stocking, 2016
This is the third year running that I have drawn everything my daughter received from that very generous old fellow, Santa Claus. It’s a great way to fill the days between Christmas and New Year, and while I know it’s not exactly Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, it’s also the closest thing I’ve got to a recurringContinue reading “My daughter’s stocking, 2016”
I drew everything in my daughter’s Christmas stocking
If you do something two years in a row, does that mean it’s an annual tradition? If so, I seem to have landed myself with a very fiddly one! [Click to see bigger] For comparison, here’s last year’s drawing:
Drawing everything that was in my daughter’s Christmas stocking
[Click to see larger] Father Christmas did a really good job this year – it’s almost as if he knows my daughter personally. Her stocking contained, amongst plenty of other things: a suffragette brooch, detangler spray for long hair, a glasses case – ideal for this newly-bespectacled girl – and patches spelling out her name.Continue reading “Drawing everything that was in my daughter’s Christmas stocking”
Myfanwy Tristram 