Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle I haven't been able to

I haven't been able to figure out the artist behind this painting

all the more so for being done on lined paper

and I believe it is strips of some sort of plastic that run along its spine

has lost part of its side and is stained along the lower edge of the lid

and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension

Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle I haven't been able toI bought a bunch of these together, my favorites of which I am listing individually, then I'll list another handful together, your choice, at a common price. A little digging reveals that "Fireside Studios" the maker of these "practice boards was a division of Fireside Industries, Adrian, Michigan, which sold and promoted all manner of decorative projects targeted to women at home. With these practice boards, one was to complete decorative painting