I don't normally do this, but I thought that it was about time that I did. Here is a small glimpse at my process. This is a sketch that I drew at work and here is the sketch half way through painting. The finished painting will be posted later.
The only spider I associated with Christmas up till now, was the spider that spun down from my sister Rosalee's stocking a week before Christmas when I was ten. Rose was scarred for life and the next day as a joke my sister Denise put a spider ring into Rosalee's stocking. It was hilarious.