EW Hall’s Scale of Color Intensities Art School Exercise cast iron dog and this long neck framed

and this long neck framed by old splits running down the sides

textures make this feel as much like sculpture as a functional object

The name of the species--in this case it looks to be "Lycoperdong erunatum" is incised on the bottom of the piece

—meaning balancer

and the surface of the back is pretty gorgeous too

EW Hall’s Scale of Color Intensities Art School Exercise cast iron dog and this long neck framedIve always got an eye out for old art school color charts and the like, and find this quite a satisfying one. The watercolored rounds representing progressively diminished color intensities are paper cutouts, pasted down in a lightly pencil drawn grid. Along the right edge are a couple of comments, written in pencilat least one of them by EW Hall him or herself, who initials the comment, noting too much black, not enough blue. Looks like Hall received