Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush plus that kerchief around his

plus that kerchief around his neck and those big eyes that seem to be coyly checking out something (or someone

I believe this would have been used for cooking as well as serving

Really a great little object

but the wood has been hollowed out and whittled

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush plus that kerchief around hisBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed