Two Spiky Trees, Creature on Branch, New Favorite Child's Graphite Drawing, by Laverne Lovell Christmas village This notebook covers topics including

This notebook covers topics including The Rule of Three (Continued)

but then I realized it was surely a prize for the winner of what must have been a fierce Old Maid card game

or a shelter into which a few wooden animals might climb and rest--which is what I might do with it

handle is 1 1/8" across at widest

Two Spiky Trees, Creature on Branch, New Favorite Child's Graphite Drawing, by Laverne Lovell Christmas village This notebook covers topics includingMy new favorite drawing, I find this just brilliant. One of two by a young Laverne Lovell listed today, plucked from a large pile of her work at Brimfield; she definitely had a singular way of seeing and rendering the world! The architectural way these trees are drawn, delineating negative space for this creature a squirrel I presume to inhabit, just totally does it for me. And then a pinecone and and a nut or acorn on the ground? I will hold this one