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"Toto Too", my entry for May's 'Pet Animals' Nibblefest Theme

New artwork...!

(***Click HERE for auction link***)

Oh, how the months do roll on.  We find ourselves here in May and at yet another Nibblefest Art Contest week.  May's theme is "Pet Animals".  Well, I certainly adore animals of all ilk -- pets or otherwise.  I am especially devoted to my own dear, sweet wee pet -- a very much cherished and doted upon 27-year-old geriatric cockatiel (a feathered 'baby' by the name of Pierre).  Even so, I still can't say as a theme it was giving me great sparks of inspiration at first.  After tossing around a few lackluster ideas, only to boringly reject them, a good friend pitched several promising suggestions, including one that I finally felt I could really run with.   Because honestly,  who doesn't adore that darling, courageous Cairn Terrier of the film classic, The Wizard of Oz....?

And so we have here a wee piece painted in loving tribute the spunky puppy-whupple, Toto, and his loving mistress, Dorothy Gale.

Painted in oils, I used a 2nd-hand, oval wooden plaque that I already had on hand to recycle for this project.  I really liked the oval outline to work with, because it was the perfect shape for including Dorothy's Rainbow, painted along and following the sides of the plaque...:

And so, if I was going to include a Rainbow..., I guess I figured I should also include two other highly iconic elements of the Oz tale:  A Tornado, and the Yellow Brick Road (as seen in Dorothy's background)....

Now, being as that I was recycling this plaque (which originally had a small cluster of tole-painted daisies on it), I found it interesting how the original owner had herself recycled a pop can tab to fashion some hanging hardware on the back.  Highly functional, so I left it alone -- and heck, might even start doing this myself  (if I can get my hands on a supply of used pop can tabs that is --  being as that we're non-pop drinkers!)....:

In any case, the film Wizard of Oz does hold such a fond place in my heart.  In my youth, before the magic of of the internet, or heck, even VCR players, The Wizard of Oz would only broadcast on TV once a year.  As I recall it was always on Easter.  My siblings and I would count the days..., then on The Day it was to air, we would count the hours, and then the minutes...!  So, so much excitement in our house over 'just' a movie.  Those were the days!

(To see ALL the lovely "Pet Animals"-themed entries in this month's Nibblefest Art Contest, CLICK HERE....). "Toto, Too" won First Place in May's Nibblefest Art Contest!  Thanks to all my lovely bidders...!

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