More Excellent Very Naive Kid's Drawings: Man on Horse with Gun, Marching Man, Pile of Rocks solitair And pulling out the drawers

And pulling out the drawers reveals that each was carefully crafted of cigar box wood

) And this I think is an exceptional example in the quality of the portrait and detail of the pin pricking

like a sculptural finial with a good old rusty surface to boot

This one I am pretty certain is meant to be a dog

With baby blue cloud-punctuated sky in the distance

More Excellent Very Naive Kid's Drawings: Man on Horse with Gun, Marching Man, Pile of Rocks solitair And pulling out the drawersI have a very deep and special love for the drawings of boys aged about 7 or 8, and specifically action scenes playing out directly on the page just about as direct a line into the imagination as exists, completely immediate, and I find something powerfully true and tender in the convergence of naivete and aggression. This is one of several I am listing, all by the same kid, after having sold a handful listed earlier this summer. Such a great horse