Original artwork description:

This is a painting from the series "The World of Tita Petita Chihuahua". Tita is my very special Chihuahua. I adopted her when she was 2 years and 7 months 19 days old. She likes to dress up as Characters and has all sorts of incarnations as a Nurse, Sailor, Samba singer and Dancer, Hawaiian dancer etc. She is like the 'Mr Ben' of Chihuahuas. For anyone who is younger than me I will explain who Mr Benn was. He was a character in a cartoon created by David Mc Kee that I watched in the 70's and it was my favourite programme. Every week Mr Benn went to a Fancy Dress shop where the shop keeper would give him a costume to try on. he then went through a magic door opening on to a world appropriate to his costume and then had an adventure. The shop owner always appeared and Mr Benn went back to the fitting room and continued his normal life. So it is with Tita Petita Chihuahua. In this painting she is a Rapper AKA Lil Tita. I wrote a poem to go with the painting.

Lil Missy Tiny Tita (Gangster Rap)

Her name is Lil Tita & she looks dapper.
In her gold chain she’s a gangster rapper.
She’s petite & pretty & can hypnotize,
But mess with her & you will realize-
She has a big bark & to your surprise,
She can kick some ass despite her size!
Don’t disrespect her, cos she might look sweet,
But she can hold her own out on the street.
She is beautiful and walks like a lady,
But if provoked, she can act real shady.
So with her, don’t you pick a fight-
She might be small but she’s DYNAMITE!

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oil

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