American Primitive Much Loved Painted Pine Cricket Stool seascape watercolor with the most amazing color

with the most amazing color for the flames and smoke surrounding our rescuee

and the pencil drawn details all over

These old printed sheets of cutout cardboard animals are so fabulous looking I think I might just leave them as is and frame them

then through holes in the whittled hands of the rower--and indeed with a little care he can still be made to row them

the parts make a fair amount of clacking as they move

American Primitive Much Loved Painted Pine Cricket Stool seascape watercolor with the most amazing colorIf I had to choose a favorite piece of furniture, it would probably be the humble but infinitely useful stool, and most of all very old ones like this that have lived long, hardworking lives. I'm not an expert on old paint, but it looks to me like this one shows a couple of layers, white over red, both applied many many years ago, and perhaps corresponding to the ages of the original square head iron nails and then round head ones use as