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Two Spiky Trees, Creature on Branch, New Favorite Child's Graphite Drawing, by Laverne Lovell Christmas village (Here's a link to aMy new favorite drawing, I find this just brilliant. One of two by a young Laverne Lovell listed today, plucked from a large pile of her work at Brimfield; she definitely had a singular way of seeing and rendering the world! The architectural way these trees are drawn, delineating negative space for this creature a squirrel I presume to inhabit, just totally does it for me. And then a pinecone and and a nut or acorn on the ground? I will hold this one