Yves Robitaille Carved and Painted Canadian Folk Art Green Bird arts and crafts bowl and an especially empathetic one

and an especially empathetic one for a friend with writer's block

Some loss of paint

so don't mind these at all

but I’m developing quite a fondness of small seascape watercolors

the predecessor of the New York School / Abstract Expressionism

Yves Robitaille Carved and Painted Canadian Folk Art Green Bird arts and crafts bowl and an especially empathetic oneI found and quickly sold three birds by Yves Robitaille several months ago, and was happy to go back to the same spot and find one more just now! Robitaille (b. 1939), is a widely collected Canadian folk art sculptor and woodcarver who, though occasionally carving other animals, is known as a bird carver: shorebirds, song birds, hummingbirds, and most every other kind of bird found on at or near lIle dOrleans, near Quebec City, where I believe he