For this challenge, I decided to create a small little hand-lettering design on a (blank) glass christmas ornament. I chose the phrase that I did because it's usually the first christmas song I think of, probably due to the Burl Ives christmas CD that my sisters and I always begged our parents to play on repeat around christmas time when we were kids, dancing around the living room to the variety of classic christmas songs. The reason I used an ornament was because my family had bought a bunch years ago from Michaels to hand-paint them, but we never used up all of them. I decided to due "holly" and "jolly" in a cursive font due to them being the main words in the phrase, and I wanted to them to match because they rhyme in the song. I also felt that this would look "festive", to match the spirt of the season. However, the reason why I used black was because I wanted the ornament to be more minimalist instead of a red-green explosion like most other ornaments, and because the only working glass paint pen I could find was either black or silver, and the silver was too light and shiny to be readable. I did a quick draft in my sketchbook to figure out the shape of the cursive before hand, but I also found that if I messed up on the ornament it was possible to rub it off before it dried, so I did the first layer with a sharpie (easily rubbed off with water or rubbing alcohol if necessary) and then the glass paint pen over top. There are some mistakes in it due to the tip of the paint pen being thinker than I originally thought, so the end of the "y" on "jolly" is too close to.the other "y". Other small mistakes were from my shaky, shaky hands. I also wish the "L"s on both words were more similar, but that was just a forethought that I missed. Overall, I feel like this was a success to do a small design on an unfamiliar object and get some practice with that, and I feel like my choice of object matches the Christmas spirit. Even if some of it was rushed and didn't come out as intended, it works as a learning piece for doing hand lettering on something other than just flat paper.
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