Fantastic Beasts By Scottie Wilson (1888-1972), Art Brut

Scottie Wilson is an outsider artist but also a major artist of the 20th century.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Jewish family of Lithuanian origin.
Illiterate, he was fond of trees and animals from a young age, especially birds, which are frequently found in his work.
At ten, he was a newspaper seller; at sixteen, he joined the army and served in India and South Africa. Back in London, he lived by working in a sort of traveling stall before immigrating to Canada in 1928, where he opened a reseller's shop.
At forty, he made his first drawing, and his creative activity would grow.
His whimsical world is a joyful, colorful, and serene one: The most puzzling and fascinating,  according to Dubuffet. These creations represent animals, creatures with prominent noses, trees, totems, and whimsical architecture.

His works were collected by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and André Breton and his drawings are featured in numerous museums including the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Pompidou, the LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d'Art moderne, d'Art contemporain et d'Art brut), the Folk Art Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

Here we have a monochrome line drawing representing animals and fantastic figures that seem to be made of scales, using his characteristic technique, consisting of networks of parallel lines inscribed in delimited spaces. Often these networks of hatching are colored with inks of different colors. Here the black line drawing has different intensities which gives it this very particular relief.
Signed lower right: "scottie"