Tag: Carter’s

Reclining Dog

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. I painted this pup while on “vacation” with my husband’s family (read: frantically working while temporarily surrounded by babysitters!). It’s a classic Carter’s dog which plays music when its tail is pulled, and he belongs to the son of design blogger Kristen. It’s evident from her gorgeous blog that Kristen has extraordinary taste, and so I was sure to include in my portrait the lovely striped, ruffled pillow against which the dog was set in the photos Kristen provided. On a day too rainy for the beach, we ended up at a Carter’s outlet where I happened upon this very stuffed dog!
It felt bizarre but cathartic to meet him there while being so immersed in the minutae of his features… a bit like running into someone you’ve recently dreamed about or have been stalking on Facebook. What?

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Gee-raff

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

5″x7″ acrylic, 2011. There have been a plethora of giraffe portraits happening in my studio lately and I’m loving it! I adore giraffes… at least, in their abstracted, stuffed-toy manifestations. This particular yellow Carter’s giraffe is dear to me because we bought exactly the same one for our Sonja before she was born. This portrait depicts Gee-raff, who belongs to Dale’s 4-month-old baby Evan. Dale commissioned two portraits of their children’s toys for his wife as a Mother’s Day gift. As Evan appears to be determined to devour Gee-raff in its entirety beginning with his horns, Dale and his wife were wise to have also purchased a back-up giraffe!

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Puppy, Other Puppy

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

8″x10″ acrylic, 2011. Here is the second of two portraits given as Mother’s Day gifts by Dale to his wife Julie. These blue Carter’s stuffed dogs, known simply as Puppy and Other Puppy, belong to their 3-and-a-half-year-old son Henry. One puppy has been Henry’s “best friend” since birth, but when he found out that his parents had purchased a back-up puppy, he insisted on carrying and sleeping with them both. So ensconced in the family are these dogs that the night Julie gave birth to their younger son Evan, she kept one of the puppies with her throughout her C-section so that she would have a bit of Henry present with her. Dale wrote me about his wife in such adoring terms and it’s clear that so much thought and love went into this gift… this couple is very fortunate to have each other!

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Gigi Giraffe

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Jennifer At Your Toy Portrait

9″x12″ acrylic, 2011. I absolutely love the design of Carter’s stuffed toys, and I’ve had a blast over the past few weeks painting several adorable specimens. They have such amusingly exaggerated proportions and that sweet, rather blank expression often seen on contented babies. The simply-rendered eyes and lack of a mouth borrow from the Sanrio school of less-is-more. This portrait of Gigi the giraffe, commissioned by Bill for his little daughter, will be an Easter gift. And here’s a watercolor sketch I did a few years ago of our own “Jingle Giraffe.”

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