Original artwork description:

This is a painting from the series "The World of Tita Petita Chihuahua". Tita is my very special Chihuahua. I adopted her when she was 2 years and 7 months 19 days old. She likes to dress up as Characters and has all sorts of incarnations as a Rapper, Nurse, Sailor, Samba singer and Dancer, Hawaiian dancer etc. She is like the 'Mr Ben' of Chihuahuas. For anyone who is younger than me I will explain who Mr Benn was. He was a character in a cartoon created by David Mc Kee that I watched in the 70's and it was my favourite programme. Every week Mr Benn went to a Fancy Dress shop where the shop keeper would give him a costume to try on. He then went through a magic door opening on to a world appropriate to his costume and then had an adventure. The shop owner always appeared and Mr Benn went back to the fitting room and continued his normal life. So it is with Tita Petita Chihuahua. In this painting she is wearing her Easter bonnet and a dress with roses. In this painting I feel Tita is channelling Vivien Leigh in the film 'Gone with the Wind.'

Materials used:

oil

Tags:

#chihuahua-dreamer #flowers #oil painting #dog #grass #easter #chihuahua #bonnet #chihuahua dog #chihuahua portrait #chihuahua art #easter bonnet