Flowers and Fruit Vintage Still Life Painting sea lion with ball The mottled matte periwinkle blue

The mottled matte periwinkle blue glaze is pretty perfect as well

and some crazing to the glaze itself

was founded in 1985 in Western Oregon by a husband and wife team with strong interests in craft and American craft traditions

and a nice reminder that it is perfectly justifiable to invest time in doing things that have no particular practical purpose other than to amuse oneself

with a honey-mustardy-brown glaze

Flowers and Fruit Vintage Still Life Painting sea lion with ball The mottled matte periwinkle blueThis flea market found oil painting on canvas catches me off guard every time I look at it: the reverberation between those bright orange oranges and that terrific off key green background gives it a startling pop; it just completely jumps off the wall. I don't know that the artist it is signed Elysik was a great painter, but I think their sense of color was pretty fantastic, and this painting, no small feat, feels totally alive. It measures 16"x20"