Your Toy Portrait - Custom Toy Portraits by Jennifer Maher » hamster http://customtoyportrait.com Original, Affordable Works of Art Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:23:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Watercolor Trio http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/watercolor-trio/ http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/watercolor-trio/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:35:27 +0000 Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait http://customtoyportrait.com/?p=837 8″x10″ watercolor on paper, 2007. Here’s a watercolor sketch from a few years ago of three objects that may be found in my living room. The giraffe is a tea-light holder from Pier One, the chick is a bubble container/wand thing, and the ceramic hamster actually represented my husband atop our wedding cake. As you can (barely) see in this photo of a photo at left, our cake’s “bride” was a ceramic duck with a silver star on her head. Of course!

]]> http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/watercolor-trio/feed/ 0 Knuffles http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/knuffles/ http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/knuffles/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:45:12 +0000 Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait http://customtoyportrait.com/?p=534 8″x10″ oil, 2004. Here is a “early” toy portrait that I painted several years ago of my sister’s childhood favorite, Knuffles. He was about 6″ high, I believe made by Gund, and pretty ambiguous about his species. There were many heated family discussions regarding what sort of animal he was… a cow? Hamster? Guinea pig? A nutria, even? His amorphous, squishy body made him a go-to living room battle projectile whenever the need for one arose.

]]> http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/knuffles/feed/ 1 Totoro and Hamtaro, Take 3 http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/totoro-and-hamtaro-take-3/ http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/totoro-and-hamtaro-take-3/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:33:25 +0000 Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait http://customtoyportrait.com/?p=392 tothamthree 8″x10″ acrylic, 2009. These two seem to have that certain something — those great big, round, maniacal eyes seem to say, “take us home so we can stare at you from that presently blank spot on your wall!” I have sold two variations on this theme this year already, so I thought I would make another one for an upcoming show. I’m not sure if their paths would actually cross in their bizarro Japanese pop culture worlds, but I’d like to think so,

]]> http://customtoyportrait.com/sonjastoys/totoro-and-hamtaro-take-3/feed/ 1 Totoro/Hamtaro http://customtoyportrait.com/sold/totorohamtaro/ http://customtoyportrait.com/sold/totorohamtaro/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:46:45 +0000 Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait http://customtoyportrait.com/?p=176 9×12″, acrylic on canvas, 2009. This dual portrait was so nice I had to make it twice! It was sold during my recent show at Uncommon Grounds, and someone who had seen it and wanted to give it to his girlfriend for her birthday was really disappointed. He called me while I was on vacation in Delaware and explained his situation, and I offered to try my best to reproduce it quickly upon my return…hamtaroctp Further complicating the matter, he was not local to our area and the girlfriend’s birthday was only three days after I was to get home. So even before unpacking, I broke out these two stuffed animals, set up my gear, and had the painting complete and Express Mailed within 24 hours!

This picture combines two titans of Japanese pop-culture, Hamtaro the hamster and the Studio Ghibli character Totoro.

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