Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle all the more so for

all the more so for being done on lined paper

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

and I believe it is strips of some sort of plastic that run along its spine

I think this non-preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them

I haven't been able to figure out the artist behind this painting

Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle all the more so forI bought a bunch of these together, my favorites of which I am listing individually, then I'll list another handful together, your choice, at a common price. A little digging reveals that "Fireside Studios" the maker of these "practice boards was a division of Fireside Industries, Adrian, Michigan, which sold and promoted all manner of decorative projects targeted to women at home. With these practice boards, one was to complete decorative painting