Hand Painted Coastal Christmas Stockings Beach, Ocean Stockings

I just finished these hand painted Beachy Christmas stockings in natural canvas.

I created these designs in 2011 and they became very popular so I added lots 

more designs to my coastal stockings over the years as shown in photo below.

Update! As of 2015 I'm no longer making the stockings, thank

you for all your past orders! 

August 2017 update...

Visit my new website for my hand painted coastal ornaments

and coastal themed mosaic ornaments like these...

Hand painted coastal theme ornaments

Mosaic coastal ornaments

Aqua coastal ornaments

I also made a pair in red and white.

I started with plain canvas stockings. When painting don't forget to put a 

plastic bag on the inside in case any paint seeps through.

Starfish...

I've done many projects where I paint on fabric

and I use the same technique on these stockings.

Sea turtle stocking.

To create my designs, I lightly drew an outline of my placement for the main design

 with white chalk then painted. The chalk is covered by the paint but if any chalk remains, 

I use a dry Mr. Clean magic eraser and it easily wipes off.

All of these designs are nothing more than a series of dots.

I use the end of different size paintbrushes to make the dots...

Fish stocking.

fish detail

for the backs I applied white dots in a random pattern and

signed them at the bottom

For the red starfish I used a paintbrush...

detail

fishy...

Here are a few more painted stockings I've made in the past.

On these I painted the entire background 

of the stockings as well as the designs

Update May 2017, visit my new Online store that features

my coastal and nature inspired mosaic art as well as Coastal Christmas Ornaments.

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