Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem wooden jaguar mask professionally framed in birds eye

professionally framed in birds eye maple

and just quite a nice looking thing hanging down the wall--maybe right next to the freezer

I think there's nothing like weathered and scuffed creamy white paint on wood

and with a really great face on this monkey

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem wooden jaguar mask professionally framed in birds eyeJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late