Oil on Glass Pansy Painting with Tiny Scissors! gift for designer Ipswich [England] August 15

Ipswich [England] August 15

In 1935 Ballantine used an advertising campaign explaining how the 3 ring logo originated

It is pretty fun to think about the process leading up to this photograph being taken--was using a giant kelp as a dramatic prop/fashion statement the idea from the beginning

is Victorian

and the French title--"L'Homme avec son ours" (Man with his bear)--written on the underside perfectly articulates the best friend status of this particular bear

Oil on Glass Pansy Painting with Tiny Scissors! gift for designer Ipswich [England] August 15It's the little pair of scissors painted in the bottom right corner about to snip a leaf of of one stem that really sold me on this painting, which, somewhat surprisingly, was painted on the face of a plate of glass, making me think that whoever made it was perhaps just using whatever they had on hand. But scissors aside, I think it's a lovely little painting, delicately done, and with a subtle, somewhat muted palette that makes these pansies feel