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!
Author: Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait
Totoro/Hamtaro
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… Continue reading “Totoro/Hamtaro”
Some Great Local Press!
I recently had the pleasure of meeting and being interviewed by the folks at the popular Capital Region blog All Over Albany. They tend to spend a lot of their time blogging with thier laptops set up back to back at a table at Uncommon Grounds on Western Avenue, where I currently have a large exhibit of my work. They were particularly interested in the Toy Portraits and were kind enough to feature the corresponding interview on their website! Check it out here!
Choo Choo Chicken/Ikea Bear
9×12 oil on canvas 2005 — I have to confess — I not-so-accidently misplaced this white bear when we moved into this house. I just always got a bad vibe from it. I bought it at Ikea many years ago, liking it’s bizarre proportions, but it had a weasel-y, unpleasant expression and creepy felt claws. I never wanted it to be in the room with the baby, so now it’s gone. However, the chicken in this picture has become Sonja’s most crucially important toy!
This painting arrives wired for hanging and framed simply in pine.
$100.00 plus $7 shipping
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
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.
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Domo/Penguin/Chicken
10×12″ acrylic on canvas 2009 — Around here we love Japanese design, including pop-culture characters such as Domo-kun. So here is our tiny wind-up Domo along with a penguin bath toy and a fat stuffed chicken. Can’t you just feel the situation comedy chemistry between them? You know that the chicken is the Newman, the penguin is Jerry, and Domo is probobly George.
This painting arrives wired for hanging and framed simply in pine.
$140 plus $7 shipping
Spinny Kitty
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! Continue reading “Spinny Kitty”
Gigi
–8″x10″ acrylic on canvas, 2009. Gigi is a Ty Beanie koala bear, but to her person, Ruby, she is a LION, period! Continue reading “Gigi”