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Some paintings I do to sell; others for entering juried shows. And there are paintings just for myself. "Golden Girl" belongs to the last category. The girl who is holding something in her right hand is my daughter when she was ten. She had just found a piece of sea glass and was showing it off. We were at Glass Beach in northern California. Yes, Glass Beach--I didn't make it up. Apparently, there used to be a bottling factory nearby and lots of broken glass made into the beach, hence the name. The time of the day was obviously the sunset.
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I had this girl when I was almost 40. She was my dream child come true--healthy, happy, affectionate, and bright. She just became a teenager this summer, and well.... She has changed quite a bit since I took the picture above. Although I wouldn't change anything about her for the world, I still miss her when she could sit on my lap, be a flower girl, and pose for the camera gladly. I miss those days.
So I painted "Golden Girl" to remember my daughter at the age of ten, just as I painted her when she was a preschooler. She was about three when she posed for a photo in a rose garden in Portland, Oregon. Of all the beauties I saw that day, she was the prettiest in my eye.
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I will probably do more portraits of my daughter, perhaps as a young lady, definitely as a bride, and hopefully as a new mother with her baby. I am thankful for my family and my ability to immortalize their likeness in paintings.
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