Wednesday, June 22, 2011

After the Snow...

This painting entitled "After the Snow on Howard Street" is by Elizabeth Fraser. Her daily painting blog is called Paint Squared: Daily Paintings and Pet Portraits by Elizabeth Fraser. I so love the way she captures the city feel of Portland in her miniatures. We've been attracted to her work for quite a while now. What a surprise! It was my Father's Day gift from Elenka, along with lobster (Yeah, can you believe they were out of mussels?) and her scrumptious strawberry rhubarb pie. The rest of the day was filled with the mundane stuff, for the most part, like weed-whacking, a little work in the garden and a bit of a repair job on a birdhouse. Oh, and yeah a big bear hug from sonny boy. It was a perfect day.
* Please visit Elizabeth's site. I bet you won't be disappointed.

20 comments:

  1. Very bold and eye catching. She is quite a talent. Nice post ;-)

    Chrissy

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  2. I love her work too Bird. I"m thinking somebody loves you a lot to have bought that for you!!! :)
    V

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  3. What a wonderful day it turned out to be. Yeah!

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  4. You are a lucky man! I visited the link you provided, and her painting a day reminds me of the artist friend of mine who did the "Apple-a-Day" posts I featured on my blog.

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  5. I am rather disappointed that her Etsy shop is empty.

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  6. What a lovely Father's Day present! The colors are wonderful and lively. It makes me so happy to look at it!

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  7. She is a very talent artist, this painting is beautiful with sweet nuances in rose!
    Léia

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  8. Glad you liked it. Not only is she talented, but very nice as well.

    Yeah, pathetic when lobster is second choice.
    Too bad our rhubarb is also pathetic this year, otherwise I'd make you a new pie.

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  9. I like her work, too, and feel so very sorry that you had to 'settle' for lobster (ohhhhhh lobster).

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  10. I like her style and sense of colour!

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  11. A lovely painting. Love the colors.

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  12. Thank you so much for the link to artists' site. And now I will look for the strawberry rhubarb pie recipe))

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  13. I like colorful paintings with some energy in them, like this. You did very well on Father's Day.

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  14. What a terrific gift. I love her color choices.

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  15. That had to make your Father's Day. Lobster...strawberry rhubarb pie!!!!! Divine!

    About those spritzers. Mango/orange seltzer, lots of ice, orange juice, a splash of lemonade and a slice of lemon. Delish.

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  16. what a nice piece!



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  17. At first I thought it was a Christmas card, an exceptionally good one. The style reminds me of Van Gough.

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  18. THANK YOU for the sweet post, Birdman! So glad you had a HAPPY Father's Day! :-) I'm so glad you love your painting & I am so honored that you featured it here! xoxo And I did update my etsy site - so there are paintings there! :-)

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