Custom Toy Portrait » totoro http://customtoyportrait.com Original, Affordable Works of Art Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:51:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Totoro and Hamtaro, Take 3 http://customtoyportrait.com/toyportraits/totoro-and-hamtaro-take-3/ http://customtoyportrait.com/toyportraits/totoro-and-hamtaro-take-3/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:33:25 +0000 Custom 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/toyportraits/totoro-and-hamtaro-take-3/feed/ 0 Totoro/Hamtaro http://customtoyportrait.com/sold/totorohamtaro/ http://customtoyportrait.com/sold/totorohamtaro/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:46:45 +0000 Custom 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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