Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) vintage painters palette and wear/aging to the paint

and wear/aging to the paint

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and better in person

and the fantastic halo-like lines around their faces representing the fur lining of their hoods

Plus pops of watercolor here and there amid what are often pretty densely packed pages

Fabulous Old Painted Root Wood Leopard! (With Gnawed At Nose) vintage painters palette and wear/aging to the paintThis! One of two leopards today, which alone mean it was a good week. And quite a singular thing this one, made of a piece of root wood, lending it this wonderfully snaking and twisting body. Something appears to have gnawed a bit at its snout at some point, resulting in some loss and roughness there, and the end of one leg shows a little loss too but what remains is so good and so full of life I don't much care! Terrific old paint, black spots