Twelve Wrong Days of Christmas: 6 Clocks a'Ticking

by Tatiana O'Toole

Dug up a lot of clocks from childhood memories to do this illo. I often work a lot of memory of objects rather than using reference images. It helps me keep the part of my brain that can accurately conceptualize objects sharp, but I have some odd paranoia that I'll be infringing on people's copyright if I use their photo for reference. Included here is a MCM clock from my home in Michigan, a cuckoo clock from my grandparent's growing up, a clock that I used to move the hands on as a kid and get consequentially yelled at for, and the Kit Cat Klock, which of course is a classic. I think it was right about at this illustration that I realized that I was going to start running out of room for objects and had to be smart with my use of space.