Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese with just very light wear

with just very light wear

who has been creating pottery since the mid-80s

The interior is divided into one larger and one smaller section

with their great black borders like frames around paintings

perhaps WWI

Girl with Giant Black Dog and Fairy Lady, 1870 Naive Watercolor Drawing, Framed portugese with just very light wearImages of girls with their dogs are fast becoming my favorite subject, and I'm definitely charmed by this one, which is wonderfully strange, as if an image from a dream which of course is often what makes children's drawings so compelling, which I believe is what this is. I assume this giant jet black creature is indeed a dog with a big stick in its mouth??? looming larger than life in the maker's imagination; and would guess it is her hat she is