Friendly Santa Claus Wave With a Little Tied Sack

A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.

• bright red
• charcoal gray
• ice blue
• chestnut brown
• leaf green
• peach skin
• golden yellow
• salmon pink
• coral pink

A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.

1. 1Color Santa's hat, coat, and pants bright red, leaving the hat pompom, hat fur band, beard, and coat fur trim white.
2. 2Fill the waving hand and the glove holding the sack with leaf green, keeping the wrist cuff white.
3. 3Color the face and forehead peach skin, the nose salmon pink, and the tongue coral pink, leaving the mustache, eyebrows, and teeth white.
4. 4Color the belt, both boots, and the boot heels charcoal gray, then add the golden yellow buckle.
5. 5Color the sack chestnut brown and the snow ice blue, keeping the white sack fold and the background white.
6. 6Optional: add a few darker strokes of bright red or charcoal gray along the folds for a bit of shading.