Boy on Donkey, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing vintage barware I just love the paint

I just love the paint job on this old wooden cutout ship

including a darned patch at the nose and this scrap of woven red textile for the mouth

with a bit of weight

and handy for stashing little things in too

Boy on Donkey, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing vintage barware I just love the paintA couple of more wonderfully colorful naive antique drawings today, including this one, that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings salvaged from the notebook indicate that it was quite a masterpiece! Happily we have a few, and they fill me at