Custom Toy Portrait » blanket

Honey

Custom Toy Portrait — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:35:37 +0000

8″x10″ acrylic, 2010. This blanket and stuffed dog named “Honey” are both objects of great importance from Georgia’s 25-year-old daughter’s youth. Georgia commissioned this portrait as a gift to honor her grown daughter’s favorite childhood things in a suitably adult way!

Freckles

Custom Toy Portrait — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:59:09 +0000

11″x14″ acrylic, 2010. Freckles, a fine example of the genius amalgam of stuffed toy and security blanket, belongs to 2-yr-old Nadia. Her mother Jessica bought it for Nadia when she was too tiny to appreciate him, but she now turns to Freckles when sad, scared, or sleepy. Jessica says that when Nadia started daycare, Freckles made the transition easier (for both of them) with his presence as a familiar friend.

Dottie

Custom Toy Portrait — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:54:35 +0000

8″x10″ acrylic, 2009. Ahh, another filet-o-stuffed animal blanket! I am beginning to feel like a neglectful parent since my own child does not have one of these things… they clearly inspire passionate devotion in those lucky children who possess them. Here is Dottie, a cute duck/blanket belonging to Avery, draped luxuriously over a cushion. See portraits of other blanket/animals here, here, and here.

Ned

Custom Toy Portrait — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:15:46 +0000

8″x10″ acrylic on canvas, 2009. So this blanket-with-a-head trend is no joke! I would say that a majority of my recent work has been centered around intensely beloved blanket animals. So far the variations on this theme that I’ve encountered have included: Head at one corner, no arms; head in the center, no arms, and head at the center, arms. In this painting we have Ned, a blue blanket with a very cute white bear head (no arms) in its center and a matching blue sleeping cap. He belongs to six year old Henry, whose affection has worn Ned into a state of obvious contentment.

Dog and Duck Blankies

Custom Toy Portrait — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:23:55 +0000

8″x10″ acrylic on canvas, 2009. Lily’s very clever mom had back-ups of these two, so she was able to send me the actual stuffed animals to paint from! It was a challenging project for a couple of reasons. First, these are tiny stuffed heads attached to what are essentially fileted flying squirrel. Each one consists of a square of fabric with a tiny foot at each of three corners and the head at the fourth. My sister insisted that I should depict them fully spread out and flying against a blue sky, which would have been awesome, but just not my style. Second, they are very, very soft and have lovely placid expressions… I could barely stay awake in their presence!