Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame handmade brush It's maker

It's maker

and good for counting all sorts of things

I believe the piece dates to the 1960s-70s

using what looks like a combination of ink and crayon

so now it just needs to sit somewhere

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame handmade brush It's makerI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass