Anthony Dunphy

Ready For Christmas, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2018

This is my yearly Christmas offering. In this painting we can see Santa pulling on his gloves in readiness to start his yearly ride when he notices that he still has one more bag to ...

As winter settles in on the land and food becomes scarce for the animals on the farm the farmer has to dip into his supply of hay in the loft of the barn to tide the stock over until...

Artist Commentary: I have been asked numerous times by my loyal customers to create more holiday winter cards of my paintings. As I was looking outside my window in this month of March, the snowy scenes in front of me were an ideal inspiration for me. And to make things even better for my creative juices, Paris had just been covered a few weeks before by a couple inches of snow. This happens very rarely and the whole city was paralysed. Parisians were unhappy, as always, but Paris under the snow is magnificent. I asked my good parisian friend to share with me the pictures she took of Paris under the snow. Between the winter view from my window and my friend’s pictures, I had enough material to immerse myself into this project. In 3 weeks, I created 8 paintings and I had the best time of my life!!! I wish I could do that all the time. I painted holiday lights, ornaments, some snow, and I even had an american cardinal in snowy Paris!!! I felt right at home between my 2 countries: France and the US! What wintery scenes or holiday scenes do you find magnificent? Words that describe this piece: winter, snow, Paris, France, tree Artist Biography: Life is basically a huge collection of moments. Sometimes you have no idea how everything will end up tying together - Marion Buricatu...

Capture the whimsical charm of the holiday season with this delightful original painting! Santa’s classic red suit, along with cozy Christmas pajamas and striped socks, hang on a lau...