Inspiration for Christmas watercolor paintings

Below I show you how I turn my images into Christmas watercolor illustrations. My usual process is to brainstorm, use artistic license, combine, add or remove items from my photo, make it abstract, avoid painting shadows and values etc.

The first illustration is based on a photo I took from a decoration shop showing a reindeer sitting next to a crystal ball. I changed this photo by replacing the red cardinal with a home, which made more sense to me showing a reindeer missing its home in Christmas.

Next, I saw two different decorations at a shop, one of a male deer and one of a totem of a santa claus, snowman and a penguin. At first these two decorations seemed totally irrelevant. But I liked them both and combined then into a female deer playing jenga with her friends (thus the penguin is falling off the totem).

I was just walking around and saw two girls taking a selfie with their Christmas hats on. I was thus inspired to paint a snowman and an elf taking a selfie. So I searched my images and found a photo of a sweet snowman ornament, which I used as reference.

Finally, I painted an illustration of a boat with snowmen based on a decoration I saw. I changed the snowmen making them more chubby.