Stunning, Sculptural Old Folk Art Barbed Wire Basket wooden flower including this great painterly use

including this great painterly use of gray for outlining and shading the belly

of which there are a wide variety

I love anything in old green paint of this shade

Graphite and crayon/colored pencil on paper

so offer them here as a pair for now

Stunning, Sculptural Old Folk Art Barbed Wire Basket wooden flower including this great painterly useMy favorite find of the week and since finding a large, wound barbed wire ball a month or so ago, which I might have sold 20 times over, I've had a keen eye out for old barbed wire, though I never expected a beautifully crafted basket to land in my proverbial lap! For me, this is about both its emphatic materiality, and its transcendence an uncanny thing, more a sculpture than a functional object, though it is quite a sturdy basket should one wish to