Nyla Gladine Thompson, Mouth Painter, c. 1950s Original Oil Painting on Postcard vintage Lucky Strikes tin 20 and 30 years of

20 and 30 years of the same

but perhaps also the Bobbie and Mim/Miss S

made with whatever was around

Then cute blue shorts and white sneakers curled around the edge of a grassy green painted wooden mound nailed to a flat base

amplified and augmented by the drips and bubbles of the white slip

Nyla Gladine Thompson, Mouth Painter, c. 1950s Original Oil Painting on Postcard vintage Lucky Strikes tin 20 and 30 years ofI didn't quite understand the meaning of "mouth artist" handwritten on the back of this hand painted postcard when I found it, or recognize the name of Nyla G. Thompson of Austin, TX who signed it, but a little googling led me the fabulous folk outsider collector Jim Linderman's Dull Tool Dim Bulb blog, where I learned a bunch about her, including that she did, as a polio survivor, indeed paint by holding a paintbrush in her mouth. [here's a link] As