Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush with these inky blue fish

with these inky blue fish with fine black outlines and details

I believe this would have been used for cooking as well as serving

the other with the flower and stamen pointing downward

and very small dings here and there

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush with these inky blue fishBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed