Curious Old Long Necked Golden Bird on Cork Base color field Print block itself

Print block itself

Best of all are Skeaping's graceful diagrams and beautiful full fledged drawings

with one nail a tiny bit higher than flush on front but still going through to the back

Bold and graphic and very charming

and mended at some point years ago

Curious Old Long Necked Golden Bird on Cork Base color field Print block itselfI purchased this bird from a dealer based in Iowa City who always has lovely and unusual things, and I think it is very much both of those. I am not completely certain whether made of wood or papier mache it looks as though the head, made as a separate piece, shows wood, visible around the eyes, but I think the body is papier mache, likely formed over a wire armature. Whatever the case, with a wonderful sort of mystery and otherworldliness about it I