Since my paints were out anyway, and I was required to make something for a little gift exchange with all the other students in Senior Seminar, I decided to make everyone a little painting. I love working with the pre-stretched one inch thick canvases. For this series of thank you gifts I bought the 5″ x 5″ size. It will be interesting to see what each person thinks of their painting I made specifically for them. Each painting is of something having to do with that person’s artwork they made for their senior thesis show, except Janelle’s. She said she likes birds, so I painted her a bird instead of a wax-dipped-tea-stained pouch.

I’m wearing the Nagaland Head Hunters’ necklace to the dinner tonight at Heather’s house. It is in the thank you painting I’m giving Heather. She and her husband Brian went to Nagaland last year. A few months later the film students from Nagaland came to Nazareth College and presented their works. They were the nicest people! Once I saw it I had to buy this necklace I found researching Nagaland art. Luckily headhunting isn’t a practice any longer in Nagaland.

These are the little paintings.