Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype wood puppet head with its terrific orange and

with its terrific orange and dark blue banded Art Deco style decoration against green body

it would be pretty great just sitting on the counter

The more Victorian era naive drawings and watercolors I look at

and an early one

this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle

Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype wood puppet head with its terrific orange andI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,