Owlellujah Canvas Print

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Owlelujah
This bold and colorful owl is getting into the spirit of the holiday season, with a santa hat and all feathers shining and reflecting the colors of the holidays. I was inspired to paint this crow at the Nederland Holiday Mountain Market, in Nederland Colorado, during some seriously cold weather. Inside was warm, cozy and convivial, in the relaxed, no worries way of Colorado Mountain towns. Outside was shockingly cold and windy, and crows were flying everywhere, and leaving hoppy tracks on every snowy surface. I could only imagine the owls were out, too. I thought it was fun, and I hope you do, too.
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