Morning, my lovely ladies!
Can you believe it’s December already? It’s snowed three times in the last week here in New Jersey, but thankfully it’s warm enough that it hasn’t really stuck. I’m just not ready for snow. I hate snow. I love it while it’s falling, but when it hits the ground and gets all dirty and turns into gray yuck on the roads, I HATE snow. I’m hoping this is my last ever cold weather winter & we can move south this spring!!
I heard you had a lovely Thanksgiving, complete with bouncy castles, dogs, and broken ankles? Aside from the broken ankle part, sounded like a good time!
Since we’re in December, I’m going to see if I can find Christmas related art over the next few weeks. For this first one, I’m choosing one of the best known Santa Claus painters of all time, Norman Rockwell. He painted lots and lots of things (he was an artist for The Saturday Evening Post, a weekly newspaper, for almost 50 years and in that time had their cover piece more than 300 times – and that wasn’t the only thing he painted for!)
Norman was born in 1894 in New York. When he was a young man, he wanted to enlist to be in World War I, but he was a really tall, skinny guy, so they told him he was underweight. He went home and stuffed himself full of bananas and doughnuts, and in just one night gained the 8 pounds he needed to be able to enlist!! That’s a LOT of bananas!
His artwork is very realistic, very detailed, and it always seems very sweet to me…and I love his Santa Claus paintings best of all – he always painted Santa with chubby red cheeks and a big white beard and black combat boots, and that is exactly how I think Santa should look. I think it’s interesting that in his picture of Santa making his list for the trip around the world, it looks like he painted him wearing a Yarmukle!
So that’s why Norman Rockwell is my first choice of Christmas artists.
More to come!
Know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
xoxoxoxo
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