Fishink Christmas 2019

Hello everyone, and welcome. You’ve found me at the final Fishink post for the year : ( but don’t be glum, because there’s plenty to see : )

I’ve used some of these images before but to be honest when I was assembling ideas for the christmas blog, I couldn’t find much that rivalled what I already had. So I just added more to it to make a soooper bumper post !

I have enjoyed us travelling together throughout the year and thank you for keeping me company with your thoughts and comments. It’s been a particularly gloomy year politically here in the UK and even though I try not to bring politics into my art life it does drip, drip, drip into my conscious and subconscious thoughts. Let’s hope we can find a better direction, sometime soon.

I’d like to also say a big H E L L O  to all the people who have ‘schnook-in the Fishink Blog backdoor’ and are now fully signed up, (albeit silent), members of the online community. Yes, that means YOU and that lady at the back with the big hair and fifties spectacles ! lol.  Welcome one and all, and did you know this blog now has over 1000 email followers who receive my posts every time they are unleashed into the creative ether ! Keep spreading the word to your friends and followers and together we can turn Fishink Blog into a worldwide creative community.

Have a fab, safe and restful holiday and I look forward to catching up with you all again in early 2020.

We start off with a few illustrations with Santa Claus.  Did you know that he used to be depicted in green clothing and viewed more as a pagan figure ? and it’s influences like Coca Cola from the 1920’s and 30’s that helped turn his clothes red as we know them today.

I’m loving the Beatle Bauble ! Yeah yeah yeah !

Santa on a moped and in a flying bus, I wonder if J.K Rowling had seen these books before Harry Potter ?

A lovely vintage Radio Times cover here.

A few snowy themed book covers too.

Then thinking about christmas stamps.

A couple of sixties artists I discovered recently.

Baubles and decorations.

Swish and stylish reindeers.

Christmas trees and wrapping papers.

A few gifts I’m sure you ladies wouldn’t ‘die for’.

The same for you guys.

Christmas advertising.

Some rather dodgy looking christmas treats for your table from Jello, Bakeo and Dexo… Oh No !

A little snow from the oriental shores.

And to bring us to a final more restful place. Martin and Alice Provensen and their beautiful version of the Twelve Days Of Christmas.

Happy times to one and all and I’ll look forward to catching up in a few weeks. Thanks for all your regular comments and additions, they are REALLY appreciated and help to make Fishink Blog into more of a community too. Please do let me know your thoughts on the posts, the blog and if you have any ideas for featured artists, or work you’d like to share with us (that you feel would fit the Fishink criteria) then do drop me a line … craig at fishink.co.uk.

If you’re missing Fishink Blog over the holidays do take a look through the back posts, I’m sure you’ll have missed one or two.

Which ones were you favourites of the year ?  Have a lovely restful break, be kind to your family and neighbours, and of course a ‘Merry Fishmas’ to everyone, see you in 2020. So it’s goodbye from me and it’s goodbye from Boo too : )