Pair of Birds, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing contemporary pottery I really love the crude

I really love the crude immediacy of this graphite drawn cross against the brown linen of the cover

I just love the silhouette of these two heads facing in opposite direction

The layers of pink and cream cut paper under the glass lid remind me of antique school girl valentines and paper dolls and woven hearts

I found a stone carved figure in Maine clearly made by the same person as this one

Pair of Birds, Antique Naive Colored Ink / Gouache Drawing contemporary pottery I really love the crudeA 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