Christmas Gnomes Gift - Dot painting

Christmas Gnomes Gift dot painting by the fireplace

Mr and Mrs Claus, drawn as round, rosy cheeked Christmas gnomes in a red and a green pompom hat, lean together over a tall green gift box tied with a big red bow. A lit fireplace, candles and a hanging stocking glow warm behind them, with a lit tree and a frosty window completing the cosy living room scene.

Draw nothing, mix nothing: dot painting lets a beginner settle into December with just one marker. You work section by section, filling in the printed circles until the whole scene appears in front of you, no sketching skill required.

What is in the dot painting kit

Everything you need comes in one box, ready to open and start the same evening:

• Printed canvas: firm, finely detailed, with the full gnome scene already laid out in a pre printed circle pattern.
• Guide: one short page showing which marker goes where.
• Double tip markers:
  • 1.0 mm tip: for the green gift box, the hats and the fireplace stones.
  • 0.5 mm tip: for the white beards, the ribbon bow and the hat patterns.

Two gnomes worth hanging every December

Out every December, away in January, and every year it is the piece nobody else in the street has. Mr and Mrs Claus leaning over their present make a cheerful welcome for the hallway or the mantel, and the finished canvas slots easily into any existing Christmas display.

It also travels well as a gift: wrap the finished piece for a grandparent, or give the unopened kit to a friend who likes a slow, screen free evening with a warm drink nearby. Either way, it is a dot painting present that gets used rather than set aside.

Two beards, two hats, one shared bow

The white beards stay light and airy while the hats, the box and the ribbon build up in dense, confident dots. The snowflake on the red hat and the little tree on the green one each get their own small rhythm, so the two faces stay easy to tell apart even from a distance.

Work the fireplace and the stocking last: a few deep, closely spaced dots in the background push the two gnomes forward and give the whole canvas a sense of glow, without you ever having to blend or shade anything by hand.