Original artwork description:

This watercolor painting captures a delicate, nostalgic still life—an echo of childhood memories steeped in the quiet magic of a New Year’s Eve.
At the center lies an old, timeworn metal baking mold, its surface dulled with age but gently catching the light in softened reflections. Nestled inside, as if placed there by a child’s careful hands, are a handful of vintage Christmas ornaments. They sparkle and gleam—fragile glass treasures, glowing with warm reflections and tiny bursts of color.
Among them, a strand of glass beads spills like a thread of silver and gold, looping softly around the other ornaments. Small glass baubles shimmer in faded pinks, icy blues, and warm amber hues—colors from another time, softened by memory, but still full of wonder. One reflects the light like a drop of frozen sunshine.
The background evokes a dreamy snowstorm—loose, swirling washes of cool blues and grays suggest a flurry outside the window. But this isn’t just snow; it feels like time itself swirling around the stillness, like the breath of winter’s magic. Everything seems suspended, hushed in this painted moment.
This still life doesn’t shout. It whispers. It holds a quiet reverence for a child’s sense of wonder—when the world paused in the glow of twinkling lights, and even the smallest ornament promised that something extraordinary might happen before morning.

Materials used:

Watercolours