Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull Zanesville planter are 11 pig drawings signed

are 11 pig drawings signed by different people--surely the entries in the contest

all with many years of use in them yet

and the legs as separate layers

9 1/2" long x 5 7/8" tall x 6 7/8" deep

and am always impressed by the labor and patience embodied in creations made of matchsticks

Very Expressive Folk Art Polychromed Carved Wood Seagull Zanesville planter are 11 pig drawings signedThis wonderful seagull, carved of wood and polychromed, has a familiarity about it to me, as if done by an artist whose work I have seen somewhere but can't place. It's definitely not your average seagull, I really think done by someone known, and something tells me from Nova Scotia but that's just a hunch. The painterly white head with mossy green yellow tipped beak is just glorious, and I love the way it stands balanced on tail features with wire