Emil Gottlieb's 1940s School Notebook with Excellent Drawings hoop skirt best green paint

best green paint

with a tiny piece of cardboard I believe stuck inside to keep everything tightly upright

so lovely and singular

and the bases for a number of them are cut up rulers

heavy for its size

Emil Gottlieb's 1940s School Notebook with Excellent Drawings hoop skirt best green paintMy favorite find of the week or two weeks it has been for the first drawing of the mother cow alone! So good. Then that red salamander, and that daddy longlegs, and turtle, and skeleton, and the "snacs" [snakes] hatching and then fully grown. And especially the pair of mice, or cats , or ? one consuming bread and coffee, and the other, healthier I presume is the implication, having milk and cereal! Pure joy throughout, done by a young Emil Gottlieb