Sad Face: Excellent Crayon Resist Kid Drawing (or Friendly Ghost the Other Way) wooden canister Cecilia's Day

Cecilia's Day

like Coney Island

with photographs of paintings like this one perfectly embodying that transition

I found another of these 19th c Sunderland lustreware/ transferware plaques not long ago (that one reading Thou God Seest Me) and went back to my source this week to scoop up one more

and those that didn't easily laying across the open upper half

Sad Face: Excellent Crayon Resist Kid Drawing (or Friendly Ghost the Other Way) wooden canister Cecilia's DayI actually picked this one out of a pile looking at it upside down, thinking it looked like a smiling ghost (or snow woman) see second photo. Then I turned it the right way up to find this very sober looking, somewhat Frankenstein ian face! Both ways pretty terrific I think, and I like this idea of the drawing holding two aspects at once. Plus what a brilliant thing crayon resist drawing paintings are, with the scraped away black tempera paint lending