The Advent Musicians 11 & 12

 The guy with pan pipes and guitar was busking/ entertaining people in the main square in San Pedro de Atacama.

My original sketch from 2016

Number 12 from an online photograph

The Advent Musicians - 9 & 10

 Number nine was copied from a greeting card. I rather like the fantasy aspect and the lively pose.

Number 10 is drawn from an online photo - both Adrian and Rose play the clarinet, but thus is neither of them

The Advent Musicians 7 & 8

 Eilidh plays the cello, but this is not her .

For the flute player I copied the image of a statue, hence the blue look

Adrian used to play the flute, but it certainly isn’t him.

The Advent musicians 5 & 6

 Leonie plays the trumpet - recently in a klezmer band. This is not a likeness of her, though the hair could be!

The pose is copied from a photo online.

Esther plays the flugelhorn - this is from a photo of her - again face not an exact likeness!

The Advent musicians 3 & 4

 Grandson Joseph is developing into a mean sax player, though this guy doesn’t look like him.

Hazel is a guitarist - this is based on a photo but the face is a not very good approximation

The Advent musicians - numbers 1 & 2

 A rather rapid pencil sketch, of a random recorder player, possibly me

and a ukelele player to accompany me

Horst Graff from Weintraub’s Syncopators.

 After reading the story about the reappearance of a painting of this band, I had a go at drawing just the figure of the saxophonist.

Jewish Museum in Berlin buys painting of Weintraubs Syncopators, who played the soundtrack to the Weimar cabaret

Max Oppenheimer’s 1927 painting of Weintraubs Syncopators. Photograph: Roman März/JMB

A musical interlude for Advent

 From December 1st to December 24th, I did mini sketches of musicians as an Advent Calendar. Some from photos, some from reference drawings, including cartoony figures.