Paintings for Christmas presents

     With the Christmas season approaching a my wife and I having a young baby I knew gift giving would have to be different this year. I began to think of things to give to my family members that would really mean something, and not just be mere material items. I really put my thought and heart into what I decided to give the family, and this year giving those gifts was the most exciting part rather than receptivity new things. 

     Watching my daughter on her first Christmas interacting with her cousin Juliette, unwrapping gifts and being hugged ad kissed by her grandparents, uncles, aunts, ad cousins was so sweet and memorable. For my father-in-law I painted a rustic farm scene. I created a nativity scene for my mother-in-law. My brother-in-laws are both athletes and I created a caricature ad a patriotic painting. My sister-in-law received two watercolor paintings one of the koi previously posted ad another of some orchids previously posted from Lewis Ginter. My mother received another orchid painting and pastel apple still life and my father an Irish farm pasture.