Category: Toy Portraits

Custom portraiture and paintings of Sonja’s toys

Choo Choo and Hoo Hoo

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

11″x14″ acrylic, 2009. Here’s an older sketch of two of Sonja’s little favorites. They are each about the size of an adult hand, and she has an assortment of animals about that size lined up along the top of her head board. I will admit that most of them were collected by my husband and myself long before she was born! Choo Choo Chicken was named when we found Sonja chewing on his foot as a baby… so I suppose that, really, we should spell it “Chew Chew?” It occured to me to post it today when I was amazed to stumble upon this post about a lost stuffed chicken identical to Choo Choo. We purchased ours from Target many years ago around Easter time, but I’ve never seen it anywhere since… hope they’re able to find another! Here are pre-Sonja portraits of Choo Choo and Hoo Hoo.

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Fuzzy Dog

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. Wow, this dog is FUZZY! I had to do a bit of grooming to sufficiently reveal the eyes and facial features before I could paint him. As part of a great combo baby shower gift, my sister-in law Kris purchased this super-fluffy dog and commissioned a portrait to give along with the toy.

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Bumpy Bear 2

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

5″x7″ acrylic, 2011. This is the second of two portraits of bears named Bumpy. Both toys are from Build-a-Bear, and were bought in memory of a beloved grandfather called Bumpy for his grandchildren.

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Bumpy Bear 1

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

5″x7″ acrylic, 2011. This is one of two little portraits which will flank previous group portrait ordered by Megan this past winter. This bear was bought for Megan’s nephew Broden in memory of her father, who passed away before Broden was born. The grandkids called her father “Bumpy,” and they were all taken to Build-a-Bear to get “Bumpy Bears” to remember him by. I love they way multiple toys with the same name are so commonplace in Megan’s family…I believe there are three Bumpy Bears and two Franci!

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belongs to Megan’s nephew Broden.

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Odie

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. Odie’s family has some amusing naming practices when it comes to toys. Nina’s mother named each toy she recieved at her baby shower after the person who gave the gift, leaving the baby to rename them as she pleased later. Baby Nina, now just about to turn ten, renamed this stuffed dog “Odie,” after the family’s own pet! Nina’s grandmother Pat will give this painting to Nina for her upcoming birthday.

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Slush

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. Hmm, I’m hearing a lot of stories about toys initially being given to one ambivalent sibling and then ending up in the adoring hands it of another. Lucky Slush is such a toy! The cleverly named Slush, a stuffed husky dog, was given to Lisa’s daughter by her cousins. She liked Slush a little, but wisely transferred ownership to her then two-year-old brother Matthew. He immediately loved slush and has nearly worn his head off with affection (and with swinging him around like a lasso by his leash!)

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Blabla Babies

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. Campbell has had her “Blabla Babies” since she was very small, and even now at three and a half, keeps them close at nap and bedtime. These dolls clearly have a wonderful, huggable texture, and I love the little bird and heart motifs woven onto their chests! This painting will be a gift for Campbell from her grandmother, Dotti.

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Liam’s Lambie

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. Recently, New York Family Magazine featured my portraits and also ran a giveaway. Here is the painting of the winner, a lamb blanket belonging to 20-month-old Liam. Liam’s father Stephen entered the giveaway perhaps hoping to preserve Lambie in as many ways as possible after it had recently gotten lost. Liam was fairly despondent without it, and when he had finally managed to fall asleep with a substitute toy, his parents ordered a backup “Lambie II.” The next morning they were relieved to find that Lambie had just been left behind at daycare!

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Winnie-the-Pooh Blanket

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acryic, 2011. Of all the variations on what I think of as “blanket-heads” (combination stuffed animal and baby blanket,) this is the sort that makes the most sense to me. It is a complete stuffed animal which is holding the blanket in its own arms. (Click here for another example.) Very clever! I was thrilled to paint this bear, as it is my first Winnie-the-Pooh portrait, and a classic (vs. Disney) Pooh at that! It was will be a gift from Deanna to her two-year-old daughter.

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Sophia’s Bunny

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. I just recieved an adorable photo of 4-year-old Sophia holding this painting. Her mom, Dawn, tells me that Sophia looked at it and, after a slow moment of recognition, smiled and said “LOVEY!!” Dawn ordered this portrait after Lovey the bunny blanket had been lost and found for the millionth time, the better to preserve it — just in case. To see more of the many blanket/animals I’ve been painting lately, click here, and for more bunnies, here!

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