Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face pink lining The black paint of her

The black paint of her hair and brown of her body has aged and worn some highlighting the knife marks of her carving and revealing green undertones in the paint

did not realize that Royal Haeger made some pretty great ceramics in the 1960s and 70s with terrific fat lava glazes

Another example of an Inuit carving that exhibits dual natures even while assuming the most pared down of forms

I don't believe it is very old (I found another with the same fox and a pewter lid being sold online by a German importer)

who in addition to teaching promoted his method of “Semi-Angular” penmanship in a series of copybooks that also contained ornamental exercises

Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face pink lining The black paint of herNo way could I not bring this little woman home, who I found a few days ago in New Hampshire. At first I took her for a nun, but now I think more likely she was meant to be a pilgrim. Her maker did a pretty brilliant job with her crepe paper dress, especially the almost origami like wrap of her bonnet turning into shawl, knotted in the back. There are pipe cleaners under her sleeves for arms, and a wooden torso, animated with this great pencil drawn