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, Wonder Chihuahua, Sailor, 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 a Nurse. I wrote a poem to accompany the painting.

Tita the Nurse

Tita the Nurse can heal all ills
With her canine curative skills-
Without the aid of potions or pills.
She really can revive the sick
With just one magic doggy lick.

When you’re full of cold & runny nosy,
She’ll snuggle up & make you cosy.
With wheezy cough or sore throat,
You’ll find she is the antidote.
For stomach pain of the type colonic-
She’ll provide a welcome tonic.
With her success it is plain to see-
Little Nurse Tita ‘s the remedy!

Materials used:

Oil

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