Melanie Steffl

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I paint with oils, print with ink, sculpt with clay, play my violin, grow animals and vegetables, travel, dream and theorize. And then I write all about it here.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

The real spirit of Christmas

 Miranda & Charlotte, 9"x12" oil on panel

Its almost a guarantee I will get a Christmas commission request each year, but after moving and only having a short time left until I leave for school, I was going to pass this time. But, I could not resist giving in to my friends' Wendy, Miranda and Charlotte. This is a family of the sweetest dispositions and most sincere intentions. Miranda and Wendy are some wonderful women living with sincere intention in their lives- choosing to include little Charlotte into their family and raise a child with an open heart and mind, ah, truly inspirational!  So, I hope I did them justice in this little Madonna with Child-esque Christmas painting of Charlotte as a newborn and her introspective, loving mother. (And, by the way, the painting was carried through with secret finesse by Wendy, Charlotte's other wonderful mother!) 

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