Old Fashioned Christmas

I have a very great fondness for things from the past. I love history and learning about it. When I came across this beautiful picture of a red oil... more

by BJ Hilton Hitchcock

Original - Not For Sale

Price

Not Specified

Dimensions

18.000 x 24.000 inches

Title

Old Fashioned Christmas

Artist

BJ Hilton Hitchcock

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

I have a very great fondness for things from the past. I love history and learning about it. When I came across this beautiful picture of a red oil lamp I feel in love with it. I put the picture in my reference notebook and held on to it for a year or so. Then I started thinking about Christmas not being far away. I could just see this lamp on a table near the Christmas Tree. I thought about our oldest ornaments and how they were a gift and very treasured. they were a package of red and gold Christmas Balls. I remember how lovingly we have placed them on our tree every year of the 31 years we have been married. I had to put those red and gold ornaments on my tree. I remembered the year our family was in Iowa on temporary assignment so we had left all of our ornaments in storage along with most of our other belongings in Tennessee. That year our two children and I made all the decorations for our tree. We baked cinnamon ornaments and hung them from red ribbons on the branches of the tree and spent many hours finding out that cranberries were very hard to string. We started out trying to string them every other one with popcorn for our garlands on our tree and ending up with them about every fifth one because it was so very difficult to get the sewing needle through the cranberry and so much easier to get it through the popcorn. Remembering these happy thoughts of my life with my husband and children along with the historic oil lamp seemed to make a wonderful painting in my mind and translate well to a story for the holidays on canvas to share with everyone else. I hope you agree.

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November 19th, 2013