Description
Pink Pony Club Prints – Two Sizes printed on 100% cotton, Archival Hot Press Paper –
The original painting Pink Pony Club is 18”x24” acrylic on canvas. It took two months and around 100 hours to complete this one.
Most of what I paint are toys that I have a personal connection to whether they are toys I’ve owned or toys I wish I had when I was a kid. But every time I have a show, or I’m out with my work, there are always people who ask when I’ll paint some of the toys they played with, aka “girls’ toys”. The main reason is because those aren’t the toys that I grew up with. I didn’t have a sister, whose toys I could steal and incorporate into my own stories. But I do realize how special and important they are to all of the people who did grow up with those toys. Including my wife, who has asked me to do some of these toys.
This painting is the result of that. It’s not just one for the ladies, but for everyone who has a connection to these toys, even if it was just seeing the commercials on Saturday morning.
I’ve wanted to do something like this for quite a while, but I did not have the toys on hand to be able to do anything like it. Until @artist.bee.dubs gave me a bag filled with these toys that she found marked free on the curb. As soon as she gave them to me, the first thing I did was start shuffling them around in the bag and putting my phone in there, trying to take pictures of them in the bag. When she said I could take the whole thing home I went straight to the studio and took hundreds of photos trying to find a configuration that I like.
Here it is. Here there are Care Bears, My Little Pony, some Smurfs, a Hello Kitty and a bunch of cute little animals. While the toys aren’t straight from the 80s, they were definitely born in the 80s.
Also, the title Pink Pony Club happened because obviously there was no other choice given how awesome that song is, and what’s in the painting.
Thanks for looking, hope you like it!
