Toy Portrait 2: Little Lion

 

Toy Portrait No. 2:
"I SAVED A DOLL.
I'm pretty brave."

(This tiny stuffed lion was saved from a Dumpster*. For a long time afterward, he was very timid––until a couple summers ago he saved a doll from falling off a cliff to her certain death.)

Painted in gouache.

Toy Portrait No. 1

*photo of lion in Dumpster at end of post, here