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| Manistique |
This time out, I present to you my series of homes I painted for Christmas 2012. Each is made from a paper mache home (between $1.00 and $2.00 at the local craft store) that I carved out windows using an exacto-knife, and then painted. Polina insisted the houses needed names.
The above home is named Manistique. So named after the street my maternal grandparents long lived on in Detroit, MI, and whose home I based the painting of this particular Christmas house.
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| Truckee |
After painting this one like a log cabin, the above home was named Truckee (after where I was living during the Christmas I painted it) rather appropriately I believe.
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| Griswold |
This house was painted as a direct homage to the Griswold home from
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and so when naming it, Griswold was the obvious choice.
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| Alpine |
This particular house took several attempts to capture the Bavarian look I was aiming for. Interestingly enough, the multiple layers of paint gave it a wonderful texture which is visible in the picture. It is simply named Alpine.
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| Cornerstone |
Lastly, we come to this house. It was intended to look like an English manor, and I added the Masonic hints almost an afterthought, which is why it became known as Cornerstone.
-Brent
"Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine." - Susan Orlean
