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Announcement Hummingbird table clothes and napkins are coming soon. The design features all 6 of my hummingbirds flying this way and that!
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Hummingbird table clothes and napkins are coming soon. The design features all 6 of my hummingbirds flying this way and that!
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Elizabeth on Apr 16, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThis print is lovely! It makes me so happy to look at it! There are real loblolly's outside my window, so I appreciate the opportunity to match my art to life, instead of just getting a generic pine picture <3
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Kathy on Mar 19, 2022
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful! These will be saved for when I write to those I REALLY love! They are that special!
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Anne on Dec 23, 2021
5 out of 5 starsThe package came in excellent condition. The painting was wrapped in pretty paper and with a plastic sleeve. The painting is fabulous. I have ruby-throated hummingbirds in my yard the entire summer and they are a joy to watch; I especially enjoy their antics with the downy woodpeckers. I love the painting. I highly recommend the artist.
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pwaringe on May 30, 2021
5 out of 5 starsThe quality of these notecards is excellent. I look forward to sharing them with friends and family in the year ahead. Simply beautiful!
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About Paperlore
Joy
My mother once wrote a poem about the joy she experienced while watching a Labrador Retriever playing in the snow and I’ve started to wonder if that isn’t my role in life as well; to share my joy in nature. Ever since I was a kid I spent as much of time outside as I possibly could. We lived in the city but all the same, I found my way up trees, crawled through the bushes, and slid down snow-covered hills. I skated, swam, canoed, and watched the clouds float by. I chose to fulfill my passion for nature by being a biologist until a just a few years ago, when I rediscovered my earlier love of drawing. Call me crazy, but I quit my job and started Lore Ruttan Illustration. My Etsy shop, Paperlore, started a few months later.
Many pieces of my art start with something I saw; perhaps while on a walk around the neighborhood with my dog Hank, or on a hike in the mountains. Sometimes, my kids bring home things for me, like the Possum skull. As I carefully observe more and more detail, and as I slowly (yes, I’ll use the term painstakingly) build up layers of colors, each painting becomes an homage to the found item and place. Although I follow traditional botanical artists in their attention to detail and accuracy, I like to think I bring a more modern sensibility to my palette and composition.
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Lore Ruttan
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I really enjoy painting things that I actually see, things that are not perfect but instead full of all the flaws and imperfections that make up reality.
Shop policies
- Original Watercolors, Colored pencil drawings and graphite drawings
- FIne Art Reproductions
- Note Card Sets
- Holiday Greeting Cards
- Gift Tags
- Tea Towels
- Table Linens
- Place Cards
I love creating this work and hope you enjoy browsing the store!
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