Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame folk art triplane with the canister made from

with the canister made from a shell casing and the little chopping man cut from from some scrap

This little petit point on wool embroidery just makes me happy

beautiful filled with most anything

(Thinking of Mother Earth as we give gifts

and a bit elusive too--I am not entirely certain whether done in pastels with some sort of fixative over them or finely spatter painted

Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame folk art triplane with the canister made fromMy photos do no justice to this drawing, as I was fighting glare to take them, and the character of the brown paper, which has the quality of a lightweight brown paper bag paper, doesn't come across but it makes the drawing richer (and the blacks are richer than one has a sense of here, too.) Anyway, I think it is quite a nice drawing, late 19th c. or so, which has an allegorical feeling about it with the shored boat looking abandoned, and it and its