Pink House, Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Painting on Stone Slate three drawer tabletop chest 4 3/4" x 2 13/16"

4 3/4" x 2 13/16"

the really gives a sense of the owl's feathers as a form of camouflage

whose full name I know from a pile of old school penmanship exercises

"  Dated January 16

snake-like circular and square coils interrupting the horizontal ones

Pink House, Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Painting on Stone Slate three drawer tabletop chest 4 3/4" x 2 13/16"I imagine he slate on which this pink house and winter landscape was painted was salvaged from an antique school slate the frame of which fell apart. Whatever the case, I like it as much as any slate painting I've seen, cozy feeling and also with a real brightness (I'd say radiance, really) to this pink house against white snowy ground and blue sky. I especially love that little line of black crosses for the fence in the distance to the right of the