Custom Toy Portrait » single portrait

Lila’s Lamby

Custom Toy Portrait — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:11:50 +0000

8″x10″ acrylic on canvas, 2009. I’m that crazy lady with the camera at your kid’s birthday party who takes a zillion pictures (to make up for my terrible photograpy skills — thank goodness for the excess that digital allows for!). But what makes my paparazzing a bit unusual is my tendancy to focus on the children’s toys and stuffed animals. Always in search of fun subject matter! We recently took Sonja to her friend Lila’s 2nd birthday party and got to meet her VIP possession “Lamby.” But perhaps the most significant thing about that event for me was my introduction to Lila’s mommy’s native cuisine, the Utica Tomato Pie!

Don Gato

Custom Toy Portrait — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:30:12 +0000

Baby Sonja has a special cat...

Don Gato 5×7″ acrylic on canvas 2009 – Target sold a series of fantastic yarn-knit stuffed animals a couple of years ago called L’atitude Enfant, and I bought the cat, mouse, and chicken “for Sonja” (for me.) When she was really tiny, I would wiggle the cat in her face and sing the following to the tune of the song “Don Gato:”

Baby Sonja has a special cat!
He is made of yarn and not so fat!
His red and orange and stripey (myow myow myow)
And he rocks a purple sweater (myow myow myow)
and in Spanish he’s “Don Gato!”

This painting arrive wired for hanging and framed simply in pine.

$70 plus $7 shipping

(category: Toy Portrait Series. tags: single portrait, cat, acrylic)

Squishy Kitty

Custom Toy Portrait — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:44:32 +0000

5×7 acrylic on canvas, 2009. Say “Hello” to this squeezeable Kitty. She is definately the cutest stress-reliever on anybody’s desk. Or, as is the case at our house, on anybody’s high-chair tray getting Cheerios smashed into her non-existant mouth.

This painting arrives wired for hanging and simply framed in pine.

$70 plus $7 shipping <

Spinny Kitty

Custom Toy Portrait — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:48:25 +0000

Spinny Kitty 9×12″, acrylic on canvas 2009 — Another garage sale find! This stuffed kitty’s lower half is a weighted plastic ball so that he won’t fall down, Weeble-style! He spins like a top and it absolutely baffles Sonja that he won’t stay horizontal. I love that he wears an image of a mouse on his chest, like you might wear a picture of a cupcake or a hamburger or whatever food YOU’RE a fan of, right?

This painting arrives wired for hanging and framed simply in pine.

$140.00 plus $7 shipping

Momo

Custom Toy Portrait — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:45:57 +0000

Momo 8×10 acrylic on canvas 2009 — This is our friend Asha’s lovey, a monkey called Momo. I suspect that in a former life his name might have been George, but his tie-dyed onesy and placid smile indicate a very non-brand-name attitude.

Gigi

Custom Toy Portrait — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:40:04 +0000

–8″x10″ acrylic on canvas, 2009. Gigi is a Ty Beanie koala bear, but to her person, Ruby, she is a LION, period! Gigi is floppy and threadbare and small enough to have been taken everywhere Ruby goes — including the theater to see Cirque Eloize! Check out Gigi and Ruby’s adventures here.

Pyjama Lamb

Custom Toy Portrait — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:07:45 +0000

Lamb 8×10 acrylic on canvas 2009 —

This lamb, found by my mother at a Long Island garage sale, is wearing cotton pajamas and has clearly contributed to decades of peaceful sleep for some lucky children. To paint him sitting up just seemed wrong — this guy is all about reclining and relaxing.

This painting arrives wired for hanging and framed simply with pine.

$140.00 plus $7 shipping