This lovely little sailboat was created by my Great Grandma Mary Brown Young Costello in 1939 using chalk. It appears to be an oil chalk. My great aunt recently gave it to my sister who brought it straight to me to scan.
What a little treasure! Grandma Costello was very talented. She crocheted, cross-stitched, tatted, arranged flowers at a flower shop, and apparently created beautiful chalk drawings.
Aunt Barbara said that Grandpa Costello didn’t like her to draw. I’m curious about that. I wish I had been there to ask a few follow-up questions. Like, did he dislike her art or the time she spent? Or did she go somewhere to take a class and maybe that was his issue? Expense, time, or a handsome art teacher? 😉
I am so happy my sister has a new family treasure to love and that she allowed me to capture a high quality scan so we can all enjoy Grandma Costello’s art.
Do you have any artists in your family? How do you preserve and share their work?
ps – This drawing is framed under glass. I did not remove it from the frame because of it’s age and the fact that it was created with chalk. I scanned it on a high quality flat-bed scanner at my local family history center. It turned out great! I scanned it as a .tiff at about 1200 dpi so that family members could print the image in whatever size they prefer. I sized it down and saved it as a .jpeg to share here.