This is a 11" by 14" painting on a canvas panel that I completed January 2003. The photo of my husband and I that I used as reference was a self-portrait we took during an unscheduled 9-hour layover in the Dallas airport. Taking pictures was how we entertained ourselves before buying a deck of cards at the gift shop. We always like this one in particular. We thought it looked like an indie rock album cover, so we started calling it our Rockstar photo.

This is the second painting I did in this style.

I'm fascinated by the way the flat color shapes all fit together to create the image. After mixing the colors, I spend weeks painting all the little areas with a small brush. During that time, every shape becomes abstracted from the whole and exists for me as a blob of brown or a squiggle of blue. You can see this at work on the left edge of Andrew's glasses; it is a disparate mixture of colors and shapes. Once I'm done and I step back from the canvas, each blob and squiggle combines to create the image.