Kid Made Crayon & Watercolor Drawing with Branches and Butterfly by Laura Smiley boxers editor and art director of

editor and art director of early fashion magazines “Le Style Parisien” (making Parisian fashion accessible to consumers in New York and London) and “Gazette du Bon Ton” (a higher brow “journal of good taste”)

I have found a number of lovely cast silver polar bears online of about the same size and to which it bears a close resemblance

I nabbed this painted metal sign just because I liked it

and as if it might be ancient

fall leaves or pinecones

Kid Made Crayon & Watercolor Drawing with Branches and Butterfly by Laura Smiley boxers editor and art director ofI found this drawing painting at the estate sale of the late NYC Wellesley, MA artist Lois Gross Smiley, and am pretty certain it was made by her daughter, Laura, when she was a kid. (She initiated it LS at the upper right, and perhaps it was her teacher who wrote Laura at bottom left.) In any case, it reminds me of the wonders of wax resist, achieved here with crayon, painted over with what I think is watercolor, in this terrific green. I just love