The Art Of Wishing My Friends A Merry Christmas.

If you were to type William Ternay Jr into Google and hit "images" you would see cartoons, portraits, courtroom art, landscapes, romantic paperback and children's book illustrations, drawings from my sketchbooks, even primitive drawings from my teen years done at idle moments in my dad's store.

Among those many subjects you'll also see some of my illustrations of a "Religious" theme, created for the
Franklin Mint, Greeting Card, Print, and believe it or not, Puzzle companies. The painting above is one of my most favorites. I hope it captures the mystery, magic, and perhaps majesty of this event celebrated by so many around the world at this time of the year..

One of the Greeting card companies I deal with is "Leanin' Tree." whose market is all those folks in the south and west who are into the "Great Outdoors", camping, fishing, hunting, etc. This concept came to me one beautiful, crisp, and crunchy afternoon  while standing at the top of a ski run in the mountains above Denver.
I cannot tell you how difficult it is to get a moose to hold a pose.

Happy Holidays friends, and the very best to you in 2015.

Bill            

Sketching that chubby old elf...and other critters, in Florida at Christmas.

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A few days before Christmas my son Mason and I caught a plane to Florida.

We were looking forward to spending Christmas with Pierce and Maggi and my granddaughter, Ms. Diver.
These sketches were done on the plane as we flew south.

As soon as we landed we drove to a gig where Maggi and Pierce were to perform.
I started this drawing with Diver's eye, and three hours later the drawing was finished, just as
we arrived in Stuart, Florida. Diver looks about a year older here than she actually is.
Sometime my pen leads me astray.

Christmas is for the child in each of us, of course. Here is Diver's version of a happy Christmas.
This child draws constantly. Can't imagine where she gets that from.

On one of my morning walks I ended up at this outdoor cafe, where I had breakfast.

This sketch was done while killing time to rendezvous with the kids for dinner.

And a midnight rendezvous of a different kind (under my covers no less!) resulted
in a sketch not of the jolly old elf, but this guy. There are advantages to NOT living in Florida.
                                                           Happy New Year to all!