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 Witch, Nurse, Rapper, Samba singer and Dancer, Wonder Chihuahua, 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 Tita is in Hawaii in a grass skirt ready to hula hula.I wrote this poem about it.

Tita in Hawaii

Tita said, 'Well I'm not being funny,
But I'm sick of this rain-I want to go somewhere sunny.
I'm packing my bag and saying 'Goodbyee'
And I'm jetting off to Blue Hawaii.
There's golden sand and turquoise sea,
And I can hula hula beneath a big palm tree!

Materials used:

oil

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