Swarming Gulls Over Moody Sea Old Oil Painting on Wood Panel handmade old puppet I love these old school

I love these old school slates

with just a little bit of darkening around the edges from age

I found this beautiful badger hair brush at the estate sale of an artist who had a gorgeous studio stocked with highest quality supplies for work in most every medium

one really feels as if all three of these animals are seeing into one's soul and vice verse

Swarming Gulls Over Moody Sea Old Oil Painting on Wood Panel handmade old puppet I love these old schoolAnother Maine find, and it seems likely that's where it originated, but it is unsigned and I don't know for sure. Late 19th or 20th century I would guess, and done on a thick wood panel, which has bowed just a little over the years, no matter, just adding a little to its nice sense of object hood. I really love how both intense and graceful the birds appear, with their fine black outlines setting them off against the seascape as if in their own world