carousel animals

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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Carousel Bat

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Carousel Bat

Imagine riding a bat! On some carousels you can. It’s going to go in the same direction as all of the other animals on the turning ring. Can’t you just imagine Eddie Munster or any one of the Addam’s Family riding it? This is my 13th carousel animal in my Fun-A-Day ‘Prequel’.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ stretched canvas.

Price: $30 reduced to $10 plus postage

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Carousel Armored Horse Rock

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Carousel Armored Horse Rock

This is the first actual carousel horse I have painted. All of these carousel animals on this site, and the many more that are to come, are for the 2018 Perkasie Fun-A-Day. This piece is not for sale. It is a promotional piece for the Fun-A-Day gathering on February 3, 2018. I will be placing it somewhere in Perkasie. It has an instruction label decoupaged to its back. If you find it, follow the instructions to receive a free coffee or tea and a chance at a free piece of art from the Fun-A-Day.

You see, Perkasie Rocks is one of the sponsors of Perkasie Fun-A-Day, so this it is only reasonable that I would paint one of my carousel animals on a rock. The rock is kind of hard to miss. It is roughly 6″ x 10″ and has silver glitter on it.

Have fun! And rock on!

Carousel Rabbit

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Carousel Rabbit

I painted this Carousel Rabbit in the limited palette I typically use in my Heroes Series of paintings.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ stretched canvas.

Price: $30 reduced to $10 plus postage

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Carousel Seahorse

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Carousel Seahorse

This Seahorse is on a carousel at an American, Atlantic coast beach. The carousel is filled entirely with sea creatures.

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

Price: $60 reduced to $25 plus postage

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Carousel Howler Monkey

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Carousel Howler Monkey

This Howler Monkey is from a 19th century carousel. The poll was made to look like a sapling. Howlers are native to Central and South America. There are 13 species. This is one of the red species. All of the species are under pressure or endangered due to disappearing habitat, predation, capturing for pets and zoos, etc.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ stretched canvas.

Price: $30 reduced to $10 plus postage

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Carousel Frogs

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Carousel Frogs

These carousel frogs are reproductions of 19th century zoo carousel animals. I painted them for my 6th and 7th carousel animals for my Fun-A-Day ‘prequel’ project.

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

Price: $100 plus postage

SOLD.

Carousel Swan

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Carousel Swan

The first thing you may notice about this carousel animal is that it is facing left. I guess it must be on a British merry-go-round! It also is not simply nailed down to the deck like the swan benches I have ridden in. It is round-bottomed and mounted on a little deck that gently tips backward and forward as the carousel goes around. The seat is only big enough for two children or two ‘very close friends’ to snuggle together in a semi-reclined position.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ stretched canvas.

Price: $30 reduced to $10 plus postage

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Carousel Peacock

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Carousel Peacock

This is a carousel Peacock painted as my fourth Fun-A-Day warm up piece. Peacocks are male Peafowl. This is an Indian Blue Peafowl. There are three species of peafowl.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ stretched canvas.

Price: $30 reduced to $10 plus postage

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Carousel Tanager

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Carousel Tanager

This is a Green-headed Tanager (Tangara seledon). He/she’s way out of scale compared to the painted ponies he/she’s obscuring on the carousel. The Green-headed Tanager is found in the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay and Misiones, Argentina. It is about 13.5cm or 5-1/4″ long. This one is saddled up and ready to ride on a fantastic carousel.

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

Price: $60 reduced to $25 plus postage

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Carousel Aardvark

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Carousel Aardvark

Aardvaark’s have always been my favorite exotic animal. For my second carousel animal for my Fun-A-Day prequel, I painted this little, saddled aardvaark. It was the first time I used glitter on a painting.

Painting is acrylic on 6″ x 6″ stretched canvas.

Price: $40

SOLD

Carousel Flamingo

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I determined to paint carousel animals for my project for the 2018 Perkasie Fun-A-Day. I am supposed to wait and just do it in January. I did some research on Sunday. I found more than 31 carousel critters from zoo carousels built in the late 19th century, without including a single horse or pony! This is more fun than one month can contain. I just had to get the ball rolling. I also decided to not limit myself to 6″x6″. On Monday, I painted a Carousel Flamingo in acrylics on a 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas.

Carousel Flamingo

Price: $150 reduced to $50 plus postage

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