Making of La Mirada

“I took a trip to the NY Society of Illustrators to visit the 2009 Illustration Annual Exhibition. While I was there one piece in particular caught my attention. It was called “Gibson Girl” by Sterling Hundley. Much like Charles Dana Gibson’s illustrations, the woman in Hundley’s illustration had the famous hairstyle most commonly seen in Gibson’s work. So this inspired me to follow in those footsteps and create a portrait of a woman with this hairstyle.”