Kid Made Crayon & Watercolor Drawing with Branches and Butterfly by Laura Smiley Kerouac and Tyke to create and improve the

to create and improve the spaces around them

The striped paint on the handles of the mallets and on the posts is well worn

which makes it feel all the more satisfying and special

with the blues of his eyes cast in one direction while the knees of his terrific long red legs point in the other

…most of the paint on the head is gone

Kid Made Crayon & Watercolor Drawing with Branches and Butterfly by Laura Smiley Kerouac and Tyke to create and improve theI found this drawing painting at the estate sale of the late NYC Wellesley, MA artist Lois Gross Smiley, and am pretty certain it was made by her daughter, Laura, when she was a kid. (She initiated it LS at the upper right, and perhaps it was her teacher who wrote Laura at bottom left.) In any case, it reminds me of the wonders of wax resist, achieved here with crayon, painted over with what I think is watercolor, in this terrific green. I just love