FROZEN CHARLOTTE Daily Painting #590

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FROZEN CHARLOTTE / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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Our dear friend and collector Melissa surprised Thea with a pair of beautiful, tiny Fozen Charlotte Dolls. At some point in the confusion of the move from the Santa Fe studio to Taos, I managed to grab a couple of quick snaps of them with my iPhone. While looking through my images, I zoomed in for a better look, and this composition took me by surprise. i thought, Wow, I gotta paint that!

The idea kept bouncing around in my head all during the rest of the move until, finally, tonight, I got the chance to paint her.

While most Frozen Charlotte dolls were made in Germany, this pair is marked Made in Japan. I’m told that they were sold in candy stores for a penny, and that most were girl dolls so owning a pair was extra special.

You can learn more about their history by visiting sites like www.ohiokids.org/oe/yt/10f.shtml

 

OX CART, MARTINEZ HACIENDA, TAOS NM Daily Painting #560

OX CART, MARTINEZ HACIENDA, TAOS NM / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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PUNCH Daily Painting #559

PUNCH / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

Punch and Judy

“In my opinion the street Punch is one of those extravagant reliefs from the realities of life which would lose its hold upon the people if it were made moral and instructive.
I regard it as quite harmless in its influence, and as an outrageous joke which no one in existence would think of regarding as an incentive to any kind of action or as a model for any kind of conduct.
It is possible, I think, that one secret source of pleasure very generally derived from this performance… is the satisfaction the spectator feels in the circumstances that likenesses of men and women can be so knocked about without any pain or suffering..”
[Charles Dickens (in a letter) 1848]

From the very informative website, BibliOdyssey.

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BEACH RACE Daily Painting #547

BEACH RACE / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

I had a lot of fun imagining these two little cast lead horses that we picked up at an antiques market in Paris several years ago racing along the Meditteranean. I had a lot of fun painting them, too.

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BIGOTES GRANDES (GIANT MUSTACHE) Daily Painting #533

Bigotes Grandes / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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TOY MILK TRUCK Daily Painting #513

TOY MILK TRUCK / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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BLACK BEAUTY Daily Painting #497

BLACK BEAUTY / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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DENTES DE ORO (TEETH OF GOLD) Daily Painting #490

DENTES DE ORO (TEETH OF GOLD) / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

After a day of photographing masks in the Rafael Coronel Museum in Zacatecas, Mexico, I’m always amazed to see how many of these faces are walking around the streets. The mask makers’ grasp of caricature is remarkable

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ANTIQUE JAR AND STONE Daily Painting #484

ANTIQUE JAR AND STONE / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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CONNIE’S CHAIR Daily Painting #480

CONNIE’S CHAIR / Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches / ©John Farnsworth

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