Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug but still reads bright and

but still reads bright and crisp

then with all the color painted by hand) in a terrifically bright palette of pinks

What makes them really wonderful is their specificity--these have been used as teaching tools due to their accuracy in representing the fine details of each particular species of mushroom they portray

as well as terrific in a farmhouse

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug but still reads bright andI keep thinking this mermaid drawing would make a pretty great tattoo! It comes from sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta, done in the 1930s or so, while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Surely it is based on an old carving, maybe a figurehead from a ship, and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum. Malta's work, which also included paintings and prints, is found