Ink and Watercolor Portrait of Woman in Blue carved wooden pen With hangers for handles

With hangers for handles

this one the head from quite an old working decoy

and I think older than that

and some light scratching and spotting on the mirror--all as documented in photos

which I think may be in Indiana

Ink and Watercolor Portrait of Woman in Blue carved wooden pen With hangers for handlesA bit awkward, but I really like this drawing a lotI keep looking at it, finding her a bit hard to pin down, but she definitely looks to me like she knows her own mind and I think perhaps shes a suburban mother with a feminist activist in her about to emerge! She also looks to me like she's holding a juicy secret. 10 1 2 x 14. Black ink, watercolor and pencil (pencil for her eyeballs) on sketchbook paper. A bit of crinkling along the top and a light