Very Excellent Naive Football Drawing #1 (Around the 30 Yard Line) whirly toy fabulous patterns

fabulous patterns

with great color

Excepting missing arms

largely because in my mind they are forever connected to Jasper John's painted bronze sculpture of them

and feeling completely the right thing to set on the mantle during a long

Very Excellent Naive Football Drawing #1 (Around the 30 Yard Line) whirly toy fabulous patternsMy very very favorite sort of drawing, and thing: its maker clearly totally invested in the action unfolding, totally committed to capturing it, and also I think absolutely imaging themselves on the field as one or all of the players. Happily the kid (a boy of 10 or 12 I would guess) who drew this one made a good handful (three others listed today, and I've got a few more larger scale as well.) I really have no words for the pleasure drawings of this