Black Velvet, If You Please
The phrase "velvet painting" brings to mind crying clowns and softcore tropical nudes, stacked unceremoniously in thrift shops or flea markets. Among these you're unlikely to find a valuable Edgar Leeteg, the only velvet artist to achieve any degree of name recognition; but you may happen upon a neglected gem by one of four Canadian women - Minn Sjolseth-Carter, Dorothy Francis, May Clarke, Joy Caros - who painted prolifically, pragmatically and obscurely, on velvet.