8″x10″ acrylic, 2010. This incarnation of the ubiquitous blanket-with-a-head stuffed toy is extra fabulous: It’s reversible, having both a sunny, wide-eyed “day” side as well as this blue side, sprinkled with crecent moons. Dylan, 2 1/2, lately prefers the “night” side. He can nearly always be found with “Dolly” tucked under his arm — on the soccer field, on a playground slide, in a grocery cart, and, of course, in bed. Dylan’s mother Joy tells me that Dolly was originally a gift for her first child, but Dylan, her fourth, was the one who truly came to love it. For this portrait, I was sure to include Dolly’s satin skirt, which is Dylan’s favorite part.
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Oh my goodness! This is my son’s lovie, which he calls Diddy. 🙂 Where can I get one of these?
Aaaaaand I just scrolled to the top to the link. 🙂 Beautiful work….will be pondering this for my son…
i LOVE this painting! my daughter, gwen, has two of these same dolls–the dog got ahold of the first one and santa brought another…but, of course, having a new one doesn’t mean she can’t keep them both, right 🙂 very nice work!
Thanks Jen! This was definitely one of my favorite “blanket-heads,” as I call them — such a cute reversable design!