Robert Ingles's Unexpectedly Excellent Ink / Ink Wash Student Drawing on Board, 1955 bob shawkey with some staining and small

with some staining and small tears along the edges

There seems to have been a set of eight plates produced with single "harpies"--but this  oval plate with a pair of them seems much rarer (I found just two out there anywhere like this one

All sitting on a surface that sure looks grain painted

and mostly dark

I also really love the super alert

Robert Ingles's Unexpectedly Excellent Ink / Ink Wash Student Drawing on Board, 1955 bob shawkey with some staining and smallMy camera is picking up some undertones and making this look a bit pink it is not; the first photo comes closest to correct, but in hand the grays and blacks are richer and the board a nice light cream. Anyway I just love these two, eyes closed and completely wrapped up in each other in a way that manages to feel earnest in the best of ways young love! With especially nice attention to their hairlines, and to her fingernails too. And the shape of