Nautilus Graphite Drawing Instrument by Zen Stone Garden Type_Platter Image size: approximately 6" in

Image size: approximately 6" in diameter

The botanical imagery is painted in a gestural manner likened to impressionism

Made of Cherry

75" tall (including the wire 'smoke') x 1 3/8" wide x 1 3/8" deep

Being in the studio was a great joy of my childhood

Nautilus Graphite Drawing Instrument by Zen Stone Garden Type_Platter Image size: approximately 6" inThis graphite drawing instrument was made by Kelly Barker in Newport, Oregon. Nautilus is the common name of the marine creatures of the cephalopod family. Nautiluses are the sole living cephalopods whose bony body structure is externalized as a shell. The animal can withdraw completely into its shell and close the opening with a leathery hood formed from two specially folded tentacles. The shell is coiled, aragonitic, nacreous, and pressure