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Sharon Visker
Hallmark Artist
On Thursday, October 22, Hallmark Artist, Sharon Visker chatted with collectors via Facebook. Here is a synopsis of that chat that highlights most of the questions and responses. Please note the chat is not in chronological order and has been grouped by subject and edited for brevity.
Día de Los Muertos
Sharon: Glad you like it. I chose the colors and do the painting as well.
Sharon: Yes! the pictures above have an unpainted sculpt of the one for next year.
Sharon: The unpainted skull in the picture will be available next year at Premiere.
Sharon: One is a clay and one is a wax and I use which ever is easiest for the type of effect I am trying to get.
Día de Los Muertos
Sharon: Maybe some with a stronger Halloween tie in like the cat was this year. I hope to do more they are some of my favorites to work on.
Sharon: I honestly don’t know which stores are carrying it and how they were selected. I do think it is in a testing phase and if it is well received hopefully more next year.
Sharon: My house is decorated that way all year long because of my love of skeletons.
Sharon: Yes, I made about 30 sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead theme.
Sugar Skull Wedding Treats
Season’s Treatings
Season’s Treatings
7th in the series.
Sharon: So far I have done all of the Seasons Treatings and hope to continue to do them.
Sharon: I really loved the snowman coconut cake and this years too.
Sharon: No plans yet to incorporate them into the series.
Sharon: No official plans yet, but I do have some ideas.
Merriest House in Town
Sharon: I loved working on The Merriest House in Town with Orville. I loved thinking through the magic and light show.
Sharon: I hope so I love working with Orville.
Sharon: We decided on magic cord so it can be lit all of the time and have a continuous light show. Then you get the added bonus of the sound and bigger show when you press the button.
Sharon: Yes, I probably will. The hardest part is actually for the engineers and how to make the magic happen. But I do love the collaborative process.
Merriest House in Town
Sharon: I don’t do anything as extravagant as The Merriest House in Town, but I do decorate. I like pigs too and was glad to have one in the line for this year.
Other Work
Here Comes the Pumpkin King
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sharon: The glow in the dark is a nice surprise, since it wasn’t listed on the box (glad you noticed)! I think it was an oversight that it wasn’t included on the box, but it is such a great addition to the sculpt.
Sharon: Yes, two for next year!
Sharon: I can’t reveal too much, but if you like barnyard friends you will like one of next year’s magic ornaments.
Sharon: I haven’t done a moose, but I would like to.
Sharon: It didn’t meet Hallmark’s quality standards.
Sharon: It is a surprise, but I can tell you that it’s a retro theme.
Sharon: I don’t actually but love looking at them in flea markets, etc.
Sharon: Yes, I will be in the coming years. I already have some fun ideas.
Sharon: Can’t give specifics but I am really excited about my solar ornament for next year and a few of my other magic ornaments.
Other
Sharon: My initial idea and concepting takes a couple of weeks and sculpting is two to three weeks and then paint a few days. But that process is always drawn out since I typically am in different stages on 2-3 things at a time.
Sharon: I do all of the color selection and the final paint on my ornaments. So I have all the input.
Sharon: It would have to be the croaking Jingle Frogs from 2013. We actually had real frogs do the recording.
Sharon: Yes, I do lots of Jack-o-Lanterns with lights and of course lots of skeletons. The artist carving is one of my favorite studio events of the year and so glad we were able to share some photos with everyone.
Sharon: Year round in my booth at work. I have lots of them in little cubes or on trees.
Sharon: Yes, everyone in my family gets them for Christmas and the Magic ones are always a big hit.
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