Life is a Great Big Canvas

I am celebrating a big achievement in my life, that of graduating from Academy of Art University with a degree in fine art! It has been a long journey for me and I am proud of my accomplishment. The actual graduation ceremony will be late spring in SanFrancisco, California, and I am hoping to have enough money saved to participate. This is a miniature painting I just finished in celebration, "Blonde Bubblecut". It measures only 5x7" and is painted in oil on a canvas board. It is signed on the front and signed and dated on the back. Barbie has always been a major part of my life. I remember receiving my first brand new Barbie, "Beauty Secrets Barbie" for Christmas when I was about 4 years old, but she wasn't my first Barbie. I had my older sisters' hand me downs, which included many Barbies, Kens, Skippers, and even Allan, and I played with them all the time, along with Ideal's Tammy Family. Good memories for me, I kept all of my childhood doll...

I painted this little oil painting right out of high school. I really like it. It is based on a photo of an Indonesian rainforest. I can remember painting this on a Friday night, and I even remembering my friends calling me wanting me to "cruise the strip" with them, but I was so in the zone with this piece that I just wanted to get it done.

This is a fun little miniature oil painting measuring 4x5", that I did after finishing my larger South African Sunset. I would like to find some more of these little canvases to make more mini paintings....I'll put that on my to do list. Sold, July 10, 2009.