Dutch Man Folk Art Hand-painted Wooden Doorstop tin cat toy orange and yellow

orange and yellow

darkening along the horizontal striations where it puddled a bit

string and magic marker

suggesting multitudes of such women

and this sgraffito design is just fantastic

Dutch Man Folk Art Hand-painted Wooden Doorstop tin cat toy orange and yellowI'm completely in love with the color combination of luscious matte orange, navy, yellow, black and green on this old handmade wooden door stop. I think its maker was too, as they seemed rather less concerned with the details of the face of this presumably Dutch man sweetly and a bit hesitantly penciling in eyes, nose and chin, then painting a thin red line for the lips. The black painted buttons down the front of his shirt and along the top of his