Hand-sewn and Crayoned Double-sided Cloth Mask oil on canvase pretty hard to miss this

pretty hard to miss this one

Assuming the former

which comes from the intermingling of the aged paint and tin it was painted upon--brown and rust and silver all together

15 1/8" l x 7" t x 7 1/2" d

Hand-sewn and Crayoned Double-sided Cloth Mask oil on canvase pretty hard to miss thisI love a mesh Odd Fellows mask, which this one reminds me some of, but there's a different sort of satisfaction about those lines of sewing machine stitching on the cloth, framing the face in an off kilter way, that I think make this really great. I also love that it was drawn upon on both sides, crayon I believe, perhaps one side a first attempt superceded by the other, but having the effect of portraying two sides of one character, the backside