Carousel Dream

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Carousel Dream

I was falling behind on my one a day, Fun-A-Day, carousel animal painting prequel, so I made a valiant effort and painted 12 in this moonlit carousel. This is the first time I have included passengers. It is clearly a dream, however. There are no spectators, no adults, no carnival hubbub; just a lonely, half-dark carousel, under the moonlight, with happy, sleepy children waving good night to the world. We see a dozen carousel animals. I will list them as we see them from right to left, before they pass out of view: a peacock bench, a white stallion, a pink zebra, a brown pony, a green tortoise, a pink burro, a crocodile, a purple draft horse, a blue colt, a pink mare, and an ostrich.

Painting is acrylic, including some metallics, on 24″ x 18″ stretched canvas.

Price: $100 reduced to $50 plus postage

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Carousel Snoopy

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Carousel Snoopy

Imagine riding Snoopy while he dreams of being the Red Baron while riding Charlie Brown’s mailbox. My sister went to college with Charlie Brown. Well, he looked and acted a lot like Charlie. His name was Mark, though. He was Charles Schulz’s son.

This is my 23rd carousel animal in my Perkasie Fun-A-Day 2018 ‘Prequel’.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ x 1-1/2″ stretched canvas.

Price: $50 plus postage. SOLD.

Carousel Seals

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Carousel Seals

This painting actually has four carousel animals on it. There are three seals. Notice the babies’ faces peeking out under the saddle. There is an ostrich coming up behind (or to the left), as well. I decided not to include the mostly obscured tiger , elephant and pony in the painting. This is the smallest diameter carousel I have seen, I painted it using only burnt umber and titanium white.  This style is called monochromatic.

Painting is acrylic on 8″ x 8″ stretched canvas.

Price: $75

SOLD

Carousel Caterpillar

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Carousel Monarch Caterpillar

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach

This carousel animal is a Monarch caterpillar. The ‘saddle’ is a Monarch Butterfly. It was another of the creations of The Carousel Works.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ x 1-1/2″ stretched canvas.

Price: $40 reduced to $15 plus postage

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Carousel Goat

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A carousel is the only place I know where one can ride a billy-goat  without ending up smelling like a billy-goat.

Painting is acrylic on 8″ x 8″ stretched canvas.

Price: $50 reduced to $15 plus postage

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Carousel Sawhorse

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Carousel Sawhorse

Apparently this carousel is permanently under construction. It has a sawhorse where an animal likeness usually is. Perhaps someone didn’t pay their pledge to the zoo.

This is my 18th carousel animal in my Fun-A-Day ‘Prequel’.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ x 1-1/2″ stretched canvas.

Price: $50 plus postage

SOLD

Carousel Piglet

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Carousel Piglet

“Some pig.”

This little piggy went to the fair and took first prize before it was immortalized on this carousel to be ridden by generations of children of all ages.

This is my 17th carousel animal in my 2018 Fun-A-Day ‘Prequel’.

Painting is acrylic on 12″ x 12″ stretched canvas.

Price: $80 reduced to $25 plus postage

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Carousel Cuttlefish

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Carousel Cuttlefish

This Cuttlefish is on a solar-powered carousel at the Smithsonian. How would you like to cuddle up to this mollusk?

From Wikipedia:

Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone. Despite their name, cuttlefish are not fish but mollusks.
Cuttlefish have large, W-shaped pupils, eight arms, and two tentacles furnished with denticulated suckers, with which they secure their prey. They generally range in size from 15 to 25 cm (6 to 10 in), with the largest species, Sepia apama, reaching 50 cm (20 in) in mantle length and over 10.5 kg (23 lb) in mass.
Cuttlefish eat small mollusks, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopus, worms, and other cuttlefish. Their predators include dolphins, sharks, fish, seals, seabirds, and other cuttlefish. The average life expectancy of a cuttlefish is about one to two years. Recent studies indicate cuttlefish are among the most intelligent invertebrates. Cuttlefish also have one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all invertebrates.

This is my 15th carousel animal in my Fun-A-Day ‘Prequel’.

Painting is acrylic on 14″ x 11″ stretched canvas.

Price: $90 reduced to $25 plus postage

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Carousel Ant

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Carousel Ant

When I think about carousels, I think about picnics in the park. Of course, no picnic is complete without an ant or 146. Here we put one to recreational use on a carousel! After all, they say that ants can carry many times their own body weight. This one can even carry your’s.

This is my 14th carousel animal in my Fun-A-Day ‘Prequel’. We need to raise funds to put this on. We have no stands or racks for people to hang their artwork on. There are other expenses related to starting an organization as well. Please buy art now and share this site.

Painting is acrylic on 4″ x 4″x 1-1/2″ stretched canvas.

Price: $30 reduced to $10 plus postage

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Waterlily

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Waterlily

When I set out to paint a purple and yellow waterlily, I thought I was inventing something new, since I had only ever seen white and yellow waterlilies in the wild in my time growing up in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It turns out, they grow in all sorts of colors: violet, blue, red, purple, pink, fuchsia, orange, yellow and white. So, in this case, art imitates life.

Painting is acrylic on 20″ x 16″ stretched canvas.

Price: $200 plus postage

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