Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem wooden jaguar mask and with a really great

and with a really great face on this monkey

And with a subtle shadow rendered in ink wash along the right side

which shows age

including instructions for how to score

the cut out beads of the necklace

Roses and Buds on Thorny Stems, Lush 1840s Watercolor Theorem wooden jaguar mask and with a really greatJust lovely, I could look at early theorem watercolors like this all day, to my eye so lush and radiant and almost electric feeling. Contemporary feeling too; the concentration of color along the hard edges (created using stencils, and blowing paint with a glass straw), as on the rose petals here, always makes me think of the paintings of Roger Brown. I know from the other two I found this one with, clearly by the same maker, that it dates to the late