Striking Old Hand-painted Green on White Checkerboard Under Glass shading study and joining one of the

and joining one of the borders to the linen

wonderfully weathered

pencil on lined paper

through to his opening to the J

and certainly it has done a lot of work

Striking Old Hand-painted Green on White Checkerboard Under Glass shading study and joining one of thePhotos really don't do justice to this one. The board itself is gorgeously painterly green gouache or watercolor on cream paper or board, with a pencil drawn outline around the perimeter, and thin black ink lines around each square. It was set in a heavy, solid wood frame (oak I think), with glass over top, and I believe used to play on this way quite a lot! The glass shows a (to my eye) wonderful pattern of surface scratching over the green (but not