Santa ornament (My first Santa carving!)

[Cottonwood]

I have been just too busy and have not kept up with what has been done here!
Wow! What a nice Santa. Very nice work!!

[mpounders]

Second one finished last weekend. I used acrylics instead of oil paits on this one and didn't do the darker wash over the beard. I got the nostrils a little better and the eyes are the same size, but I am going to practice on the eyes a bit before doing another. The third picture shows both ornaments. I kinda like the painting on the first better, but I may be comparing apples to oranges since I didn't do the darker wash. I didn't quite get the reddened frost-bit look on the cheeks and noses with the acrylics that I wanted. Anyways....

[Bill Anderson]

the new one looks even better, you have a nack for these... I started doing a bunch of these but your are putting mine to shame.

[jimmy joe]

Great job on those . Lot's of nice detail on old Santa !

[tomrsey]

Those are outstanding!! You have those faces down pat. And only your second......... wow.

[Tom-H]

Excellent! Don't care whether it's the first or the 1000th. My first one looked like something from the deep underworld.....scary-scary-scary.

Tom H