I have to thank my dear friend René Britt for inspiring me to start painting "The Red Guitar Series." She saw a painting of a guitar in a furniture store that she liked but the guitar was brown and she wanted a red guitar to match the new lamps in her living room. She asked me to paint one as a gift for her husband. I had NEVER painted a large canvas painting, not even in art school. I loved it so much that it became a series. Shortly after that I started dating Tony Airoldi, a Gypsy Jazz guitar player. I started listening to lots of Django Reinhardt music and as usual, my art seemed to have followed the music. These have not only been very popular original paintings but  prints and ACEOs.