going to the chapel

ha ha ha... an old Harlequin book cover

embroidery from a thrift shop tea towel that i am making into a wedding card for some friends

playmobil nuptials

Toys

For a while I was using toys in little "semi still life" paintings. I'm not interested in painting them anymore, so I decided to take a photo of my collection and then put them away. One of the pinnochios is from Italy, one from the Czech Republic, and I got the red doll and camel in Egypt. It is hard to paint toys well and I was, appropriately at the time, advised not to do so.

"Carmencita Playing" by Antonio Lopez Garcia, a painting I like a lot, has toys in it. I love those little chairs and how Carmencita's back is to us, she's in her own world.

Playmobil Mega-Super Dr Who Set

Check it out! Yes, I am a dork...

There is some backstory to the Playmobil business: one Christmas in college, my friend Billy gave me a real Playmobil set featuring several monkeys and a veterinarian with little plastic syringes! Thus began a nuclear arms race of sorts as we both tried to find the weirdest Playmobil sets for subsequent Christmases. Great finds included a Hazmat team, a policeman and handcuffed punk, construction workers witha Port-a-John, and so on. Then I got the idea to make up my own sets -- I did a "Crazy Cat Lady" with a few real Playmobil cats and about 15 supplemental sculpey cats, a weird Playmobil calendar, and this year a take on the BBC sci fi series Doctor Who, much beloved by many of my college friends.

Holiday 2009 Playmobile Roll-Out

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Playmobil Redonk

Autumn

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