Young Woman in Blue, Antique Full Plate Folk Art Painted Tintype easter eggs With the framework of the

With the framework of the house and various details scratched/incised into the stone

earthy and honest and rich

though I personally might opt to hang it from a different orientation

and with the most phenomenal surface

Young Woman in Blue, Antique Full Plate Folk Art Painted Tintype easter eggs With the framework of theI've really fallen in love with antique hand painted full plate tintype portraits, and this one a bit bolder and more striking in person has a wonderful intensity and surrealness about it, with the matte gray painting around this young woman amplifying the elongated shape of her head and hair, making her look almost as if in the process of transforming into a different sort of creature (I keep thinking of a gazelle!) With wonderfully delicate dots of