Morning, ladies!
Happy Thursday to you on this last Thursday before Christmas 2014!
Yesterday your Auntie had a Christmas party at work. It was in a fancy place, with a big ballroom, and they had REALLY LOUD music….which was good, because it meant your Auntie didn’t have to talk to people as much as I would have if it had been quiet, but was also bad, because some of it was quite good music, but a work party is not an appropriate place for dancing, and you know how much I love to dance! There was a lot of food, and for dessert there were TRULY excellent brownies, though. So all in all, despite the fact that I had to make chit-chat for several hours, it was an okay party.
The artist I’ve chosen for this week is Manuel Baldemor, specifically for this piece right below, which just feels amazingly Christmas-y to me, without actually having a single Santa or Christmas tree in it. I love the bright colors, like twinkling Christmas lights, and all the lovely stars. It looks like a very magical village that is just before dawn on Christmas morning, and they’re about to have a wonderful day.
All of his work that I’ve seen has these amazing, super bright colors, which I love – art people will tell you that you can’t do that, that you have to put neutral tones in the painting to make the bright colors pop – and that really does work - , but my favorite pieces tend to be the ones that are just full of lots of crazy bright colors all at once. They just look happy. Aren’t the mountains in the last one AMAZING? They look like Van Gogh, but not. I think that’s because when he was young he was trained as a wood carver – so he kept that style of using shapes that are simple to create layered images.
Manuel is from Laguna, in the Philippines, was born in 1947 and is still very much alive and painting.
Next week we’ll be celebrating Christmas together, so I’ll see you then!
Know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
xoxoxo
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