I bought this fanciful party horn at a greeting-card store and have lost track of when.
Doodle by yours truly. Mechanical pencil, Paper Mate Flair Medium and Arteza Bold 1.0 mm pens, and sketchbook paper. Digital filter used in larger version seen below.
It doesn’t have a year on it and the store is now out of business. It has golden paper that shimmers and a fluffy frill of ebony feathers that I think gets prettier with time.
It’s a little crooked (in real life and in my drawing) but holds a lot of hope and cheer.
Each time this calendar year we get to start over, to reset, to look ahead in art and in life, and that feels fitting and good. Thanks for all of your camaraderie and support.
Here we go, 2023! To all that we’ll create and experience in the year ahead!
