Saturday 7 January 2012

The Alphabet Paintings: R

The alphabet paintings continue with the letter R and a memory from childhood...

When I was growing up, I remember reading a whimsical tale of how God named all the flowers. When He was walking in the garden one day, he came across this pretty blue flower and asked for its name. The blue flower bashfully replied that he couldn't remember. So God whispered to the flower, "remember that I love you, forget-me-not"

Remember that I love you


30 comments:

  1. I love this tribute to this lovely little flowers, Pat! The shadows make them jump from the paper. Really beautiful!

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  2. Thanks, Judy. I really enjoyed painting these little beauties xx

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  3. First beautiful your painting with this blue flowers. Than lovely and beautiful your sentiment to it. I adore these both. Forget me not!!
    Sure I will come back.I am a beginner with my paintingblog (marjascreativity) beside my stampingblog.
    Have a nice weekend and lovely greet
    Marja

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  4. Georgeous handling of the colors. And I love the story.

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  5. Love these Pat, they are so very well done. Thank you for the wonderful little story too.

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  6. Pat,what a touching sweet post today.. I needed this... Thanks
    BJ

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  7. I love the painting, Pat, and I love the story. I'd never heard it before.

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  8. Wonderful Pat, love the color and the story of this flower.

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  9. Pat, what a lovely story and painting!!!

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  10. Love the painting and the story. I've never heard that before.

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  11. What a sweet story. Forget-me-nots are favorites of mine, I am spreading them all over in my garden, love the blue 'carpet' they make in the spring time. Lovely painting. xx

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  12. Lovely work :) one of my favorite flowers

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  13. A very soft colours! Good sunday, Arianna

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  14. Pat, I love the story, and the painting is gorgeous!!!

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  15. What a lovely story! And beautiful flowers!

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  16. Thank you all . So pleased to read that you all enjoyed the short remembrance that inspired the painting - and that you liked the painting too!
    Special hugs to you, BJ xx

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  17. Sweet.. Both the story and the painting. :)

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  18. Hello Pat. I became a follower of your blog. I like your way of telling, your paintings are very nice and I love your dog!

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  19. So pretty. Love the forget me not. They are so delicate. Great job Pat.

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  20. Hi Pat, beautiful flowers and beautiful story too. In Italy we call them "non ti scordar di me", exactly the same meaning as in England. Hug!

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  21. Que precioso relato y que lindo tu trabajo.
    Felicidades.
    Besitos.

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  22. Sweet story and the painting is beautiful.

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  23. This is absolutely beautiful :0)

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  24. These are gorgeous little flowers and you've certainly done justice to them with your wonderful painting. Love the colours and the simple background sets them off beautifully. ;-)

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  25. thank you all.
    Glad you like how I painted the flowers and the background and very interesting to read that they are called the same in Italy xx

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  26. Your "forget my not" are wonderful. The flowers stand out vividly from the background
    and the story is delightful
    Elsbeth xx

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  27. No conocía esta historia,Pat, muy bien pintadas estas flores, unos colores muy acertados.
    Saludos

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  28. I wish I could hear the whole story; this was lovely. xx

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