Dear friend,
I think this one deserves a post all to itself. The owner of this home admitted to me that she really struggled with color choices while renovating it, specifically the fiery orange doors. But the combination of taupe, gold and orange here is just striking, wouldn't you say? Fit for a storybook! What is it about certain colors, that when placed next to certain other colors, can just steady our hearts and then quicken them? What is it that makes us want to stake out our little plots of land and paint our houses and fill the world with color?
When I paint these wee portraits, I think about the space that has been carved out for these families, and the families that lived in the houses before them, and before them, and all the lives that were lived under each roof. All the stories.
Anyhow, good job, McHales!
Love,
Rebekka
14 comments:
very sweet...these houses we live in are filled with personalities...and stories. i have always tried to honor that...gently restore rather than brutally renovate. if we strip a house of it's past we take away it's memories and leaves just a shell... and who wants to live in a shell?? lol xo
Leanne,
Maybe a snail? LOL!
I so agree :)
Rebekka
Oh I love the fiery orange doors! I cant get enough of hot colours lately (I wonder what a psychologist would make of that?) so anything bright sunny yellow or fiery orange and it gives me a funny warm feeling inside!!
Hows the Moon Garden planning coming along....I have just put a load of before/after and before (again)pictures - its complicated, on my blog as I have now found a bench (hoorah!) and have plans to make over the old green shed (doesn't really fit with the moon garden idea) and then...when pennies allow I hope to embrace the Moonlight planting scheme. Did you know that white gardens, such as the one the novelist Vita Sackville West planted at Sissinghurst Castle here in the UK were all the rage in the 1930's and a Moonlight Garden (or what would have been) was discovered at the Taj Mahal!
Just had to share that with a fellow Moon Garden friend.
:-)
Best wishes
Sophie
Our homes are dear, and I love the extra warmth and tenderness you bring to each home you paint.
Love.
Beautiful! I'm saving up to order a portrait from you by the end of the year. I love them.
I think those fiery orange doors are wonderfully welcoming. I hate when people paint their doors the same colours as their beige and boring trim (well, like we did!). So much better to have a little colour and courage. (Every time I write the word 'colour' I feel like I'm waving a Canadian flag. :)
Beautiful as usual, and I love the birds in the sky!
Fleur xx
Those window boxes are so pretty! I just love thinking about how we all see beauty in different shapes and colors and how our homes are a place where we can collect and display and create the things that are beautiful to us!
Ur work is always so pretty :)
so I am here to say I just fell in love with your blog... like just all of it! haha
The birds are such a nice little touch and give it that extra bit of charm your paintings always seem to have. Looking forward to seeing more!
so beautiful. :)
Your strawberry soup is so beautiful!
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