Nyla Gladine Thompson, Mouth Painter, c. 1950s Original Oil Painting on Postcard vintage Lucky Strikes tin amplified and augmented by the

amplified and augmented by the drips and bubbles of the white slip

made with whatever was around

with "antes" printed across the edge of one side

but perhaps also the Bobbie and Mim/Miss S

Nyla Gladine Thompson, Mouth Painter, c. 1950s Original Oil Painting on Postcard vintage Lucky Strikes tin amplified and augmented by theI didn't quite understand the meaning of "mouth artist" handwritten on the back of this hand painted postcard when I found it, or recognize the name of Nyla G. Thompson of Austin, TX who signed it, but a little googling led me the fabulous folk outsider collector Jim Linderman's Dull Tool Dim Bulb blog, where I learned a bunch about her, including that she did, as a polio survivor, indeed paint by holding a paintbrush in her mouth. [here's a link] As