James Bone "Sea Creatures" Pencil and Watercolor 2010 Drawing beautiful object The wood is worn and

The wood is worn and aged

and there are two that are chipped

or fill it with water and use it as a vase

particularly around the lip

this one features a wonderful graphic black and umber bird and fish design by Johanne Gerber

James Bone "Sea Creatures" Pencil and Watercolor 2010 Drawing beautiful object The wood is worn andJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed body less facial profiles. Here the double faced forms read as jellyfish, pulsing through a sea of blue and yellow painted dots. Blue upward pointing arrows at the top of each head, horizontal pencil lines connecting the eyeballs, and red lines rising from nostrils together convey constant motion and