Wild Art Wednesday

| November 8, 2023

OWN a Piece of Padre History

It never occurred to me that Grandma was doing some historical mining when she would stop at the postcard display – you remember those spinning rounders that sat at the registers on South Padre right? – and she would take not one, but two, three sometimes even five postcards of the same and add them to the bill. (If you don’t know what a postcard is? Just ask me. It goes way back to the days of the “post office.”)

A few survived long enough for me to dig them up and after spending my time on South Padre Island in late 2022 halfway into 2023, I recognized them as valuable timepieces that show what the Island once was. They don’t go quite back to my first memories of South Padre Island in the early 60’s, but those aerials certainly capture an island on the cusp of being changed forever.

And the innocence of beach combing couples belied the tumult of the Island’s late 60’s hippie invasion, that by the early 70’s was just another memory.

I only have a few originals, so I decided to do better, and now have these reproductions for purchase in my SHOP. If you are unfamiliar with framing, then let me explain the description on the postcards … when an image is “floated” that means they are printed (by me archivally) on an oversize sheet of quality photo paper. That makes them ripe for quality framing, and that is a service I also offer for all the artwork in my gallery. Quality prints in quality frames for artwork with South Padre Island, and Borderlands

Original art reproductions of Leslie Kregel paintings that blend together in a whimsical style that crossing over from the fly fishing world into the natural world.

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Rabbit Duo
Rabbit Duo
Rabbit Duo
Rabbits Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
Bug on the Fly
Bug on the Fly
Bug on the Fly
Bugs Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
Fly on the Flower
Fly on the Flower
Fly on the Flower
Bugs Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
Fly on the Flower
Fly on the Flower
Fly on the Flower
Bugs Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
Fly Cactus Bug
Fly Cactus Bug
Fly Cactus Bug
Fly Cactus Bug Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
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Rabbit No Run
Rabbit No Run
Rabbit No Run
Rabbit Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
Fly on the Flower
Fly on the Flower
Fly on the Flower
Bugs Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
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Redrup Rabbit
Redrup Rabbit
Redrup Rabbit
Rabbits Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
Prickly Rabbit
Prickly Rabbit
Prickly Rabbit
Rabbits and Cactus Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00
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Prickly Bug
Prickly Bug
Prickly Bug
Rabbits Painting Reproduction by Leslie Kregel
$20.00

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Category: Fish Art, Life Observed, South Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Wild Art Wednesday

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