As Found, Eerie Antique Tintype Portrait of Girl Seated at Table lacquer box with dog thus yielding wonderfully inky pools

thus yielding wonderfully inky pools of saturated color around its shoulders and neck

including of other better shop students than I completing the knife boxes and tie racks and bird houses and foot stools represented in these plans

and as jumping off points for more  improvisatory creative play

and a long awaited one

The perfect addition to a collection of wonderful old brushes--or just a lovely object to set somewhere or hang on the wall

As Found, Eerie Antique Tintype Portrait of Girl Seated at Table lacquer box with dog thus yielding wonderfully inky poolsI've always got an eye out for old photographs made more interesting and evocative via the effects of time and think this tintype is definitely one of those. It makes me think a bit of little miss muffet sitting on her tuffet and then the spider coming along to cast her in its web, and also of a reflection captured in a shattered mirror. One of the things I like about this sort of photographic deterioration is that feels as if having emerged from