My Favorite Things Painting

When I was a child I would entertain myself endlessly with my View Master viewer and the numerous slide reels I owned. I remember "Aladdin's Lamp" and "Tom and Jerry" vividly, but I owned many other reels from Disney and sites like Yellowstone Park and other national landmarks. When I was a little older I received a View Master Junior projector and small movie screen for my birthday and it was then even more fun to project these reels in a dark room. When I grew up and left home for college, my mother sold all of my treasures in a garage sale but at the time it didn't matter. Many years later, I found a View Master Junior projector in an antique shop and after purchasing it, my nostalgia got the better of me and thanks to eBay, I was able to restore my View Master reel case and almost all of the reels that I used to own. It has been a delight to watch them all again.f In this painting, I've mixed the old and the new. The vintage View Master Junior projector combined with a more recent Disney "Cars" viewer and orange "Cars" reel case. The vintage Disney "101 Dalmatians" reel along with the "Aladdin's Lamp" (in the foreground) complete the vintage side of the reels.