Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present it folds and flips over

it folds and flips over into chair and desk

and heartened by a sense of tides turning toward a more optimistic vision for the future

I find it curiously compelling

Fold fold lines along the bottom fourth the paper and some small scattered stains

Both the shapes and the placement of those dots is wonderfully irregular

Yellow Bearded Pale Iris, Delicate Antique Watercolor great present it folds and flips overI will never tire of antique folk art watercolors of flowers largely painted by women and girls and a lot about close looking, and as was explicitly noted on a watercolor of an iris by a different maker that I listed last week, in many cases these were of flowers women "raised" themselves several points of pride at once. I really like the attention paid to the petals and "beard" on this single bloom, treated a bit like a scientific specimen! Paper 7 5