Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame cutout wooden bird and the pins still in

and the pins still in it all over

newly restored with a new canvas lining

are of course the things that usually give me the most pleasure

What makes it for me of course is this hand-painted bird on green leafy branch

and also a but like a science class model of four planets circling the sun in an alternative universe

Electric Feeling 19th Century Tinsel Painting with Floating Watermelon and Knife, Original Frame cutout wooden bird and the pins still inI don't very often go for a tinsel painting, often a bit too garish for me though their existence as an artform makes me really happy but I was all in at first sight with this one, found in New Hampshire, with the watermelon perched on top, and that knife floating above it as if levitating, really doing it for me! Terrific down to every detail I think , from the bright yellow footed bowl with red painted details (all the painting is reverse glass