Oversized Antique Primitive Solid Wood Painted Checkers Gameboard pin cushio I keep going back to

I keep going back to the same seller in Russia to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty

One of the things I love most about old folk carved whimsies is that even when representing fairly common forms -- chain links

with bright orange body

This is a lovely footed stoneware bowl by Wisconsin potter Rick Hintz of Johnson Creek Clay Studio

which is totally radiant

Oversized Antique Primitive Solid Wood Painted Checkers Gameboard pin cushio I keep going back toI spotted this (huge) old board from across the room (in New Hampshire), where it read like a minimalist painting the combination of simple, bold pattern and subtleties of the old painted surface (which details best capture) make it to my eye a really beautiful thing. I'm not sure if it was made for giant sized checkers, or just to be decorative, but it's definitely got age, I'd guess early ish 20th century, with fine alligatoring to the paint,