Marvelous Gravel Painting of Horse in Landscape with Rope Border incan ) The more you look

) The more you look

With a great patina of wear from use

One can never have enough pretty small plates -- they're great for cocktail parties

This is about the most refined and beautifully made brush I've come across

I purchased a pair of these vintage 1980s Memphis Design-syle ceramic pins at the estate sale of an artist--this one black and white

Marvelous Gravel Painting of Horse in Landscape with Rope Border incan ) The more you lookI've been thinking about this piece, and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree, since the moment I saw it (at the Wellesley, MA estate sale of artist Lois Gross Smiley). I am doubtful this is a piece she made, though I don't know for sure but I'd say she had a pretty terrific eye in choosing it and keeping it near! Whoever its maker, I think they elevated the kitschy medium of colored