I'm currently working in the piece below. I just got started a few days ago. Actually Dr. Armando Arias, my major advisor from the Integrated Studies department at CSU Monterey Bay, hired me to make a replica of a painting he really likes that is located in Los Cabos, (Baja) in a restaurant/bar. I don't really know the name of the artist that created the original piece, but I plan to find out so that I can site my work becuase I don't want to be seen as if I'm stealing someone else's work without even acknowledgment or permission. I will be making some changes though, so it won't be exactly the same.

this new painting will basically be a portrait of his wife Patricia. I also will make it a little more like my style so it won't be identical and it wont have any blue either and some of the designs will change to chiles.
I just got started so I still have a lot to do. I plan to post images of the work in progress to keep track of how long it takes me to complete it and how fast I advance. It's being a tough summer though becuase I'm being a full time mom, I'm also a full time summer student taking an online course on health and wellness, and a Chicano literature course. I'm also staring to swimm and I take Celeste to swimming lessons, so my schedule is a little busy.... and Agu will soon start working as a teacher with the migrant program so he won't be much around to help me with celeste, so I really need to work.

I also did a quick sketch of Patricia, Dr. Arias' wife. She is very pretty and looks very young too. I just wanted to practice sketching her face, but when it comes to painting her, I will really take my time so that it really looks like her.
I'm very happy I'm making this painting although there is all this pressure becuase I'm being hired and paid for, and the deadlines, but I will try my best. I'm excited! =0)