Colorful Carved and Painted Birds by Canadian Folk Artist Yves Robitaille keys with a bit of minor

with a bit of minor scratching to the glass here and there and a few tiny dark spots on the etched forms

preferably somewhere that it can be easily picked up

A charming set of vintage painted wood toy bowling pins or skittles in yellow

which would be fantastic for serving pasta or salad to a crew of a dozen or more

Colorful Carved and Painted Birds by Canadian Folk Artist Yves Robitaille keys with a bit of minorWithout consciously realizing it, I have been gravitating to the work of lots of Canadians of late, and especially folk artists in and and around Quebec. These very charming birds are the work of Yves Robitaille (b. 1939), a widely collected sculptor and woodcarver from Saint Francois de lIle dOrleans. Though he has occasionally carved other small animals, Robitaille is first and foremost a bird carver shorebirds, song birds, hummingbirds, and most