I'm sure most of you remember the sad eye paintings from the 60s/70s. When I was a kid I had some of the puppies and kittens pictures. You could buy them at any department store and they usually came in a plastic frame. Well, me being the crazy collector of kitsch, I saw one at the Goodwill and I started collecting them.  I love the Mod Kids pictures by the artists Lee and Eve. They were kids dressed in mod clothes usually dancing with a record player or radio, or playing guitars.  After doing a little research I found out that the most popular painter of Sad Eye kids was Margaret Keane. The short version of her story is, her husband had her paint the paintings and then he took the credit for them. During their divorce proceedings, her husband wanted credit for the artwork, but the judge had Margaret paint and realized that she indeed was the painter and she got full credit for the paintings.  Anyways, alot of people think they're creepy paintings, which, some of them are, but I like that kind of wierd stuff, so that's my new collection!  :D

oh..those are too cute!

Could you post some pictures? I want to see.

I think I know the pictures she means, I am looking for them online, you could buy them from Woolworths.

Could you post some pictures? I want to see.

Sure! The doggy is Gig and the Kids are Eve

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/rfk975/doggy.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/rfk975/bigeye.jpg

^ it was different pictures I was thinking of, unless it is the British versions I had in mind

Oooohhh, I loved these as a child  8)

Oooohhh, I loved these as a child  8)

Me too! And now I love them again! I had a picture and a lamp of the doggie one in the above picture. 

^ it was different pictures I was thinking of, unless it is the British versions I had in mind


I think the British ones might have been based on Holly Hobbie type characters - all patchwork smock dresses  :-\\