Sunday, February 23, 2014

Village Wine Shop

This 5 x 7 painting was done for two of my closest friends who owned this shop, the Village Wine Shop in Maplewood, NJ for the last 17 years. They recently sold the business and are now retired...and so far loving it. I used GoogleMaps to find an image of the shop to work from. This was given to them as a "congratulations and happy new stage of life" card. They were thrilled.


8 comments:

  1. Beautiful painting. And what an amazing and thoughtful gift to give to them.

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  2. I can see why they were thrilled.
    I particularly love the way you've done the brickwork.

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  3. Beautiful work, Joan! and I can imagine how happy you made them.

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  4. I think this is such a thoughtful gift, Joan! I know they loved it and will always cherish it. I think when they look at this they will recall many happy memories.

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  5. Just goes to show, you don't have to spend tons of money to give someone a lovely, meaningful gift. Great sketch!!

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  6. Thanks everyone! I know it was appreciated.

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