Vintage Gouache on Paper Southeast Asian Painting of Floating Market Boat woman and child orange and yellow

orange and yellow

powder-lacquered black steel

and still in operation

and there is still some treatment left in the bottle

almost rocky variegated exterior dramatically contrasting with silky smooth

Vintage Gouache on Paper Southeast Asian Painting of Floating Market Boat woman and child orange and yellowI love everything about this painting, from the bright red boat, to the confident figure in yellow pants fishing from the boat, to the wonderfully specific baskets full of fish and other things including what I'd guess are lemongrass stalks, to the cobalt blue sea animated with white gulls and what look like lily pads everywhere. I am not sure what the seated boy and girl are doing, but they look pretty engaged with it! I find there is an appealing