Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition studio pottery fish platter Colors are orange

Colors are orange

and often several of them together

among whom he lived for a part of each year for most of his life

but also just as a lovely little object for display

The tape used to mount it on that board is slightly visible in the top corners of the print

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition studio pottery fish platter Colors are orangeBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed