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I love this piece. I had my 2-year-old granddaughter visiting with me, and she would often get books and bring them to you for you to read.

One book we have is "When You Give a Mouse a Cookie". A really cute book, which incidentally, is used often as an illustration of government bureaucracy in government classes. Anyway, I thought it would be a really cute idea to paint me reading a book about a mouse, showing my "intended" audience, as well as my "unintended" audience, my cat!

Described as a “Renaissance Woman”, Laurie E. Tietjen possesses a wide range of talents, abilities, and interests: a licensed educator, Certified Public Accountant, business consultant, jazz musician, and visual artist. It is her talent in the visual arts that rises above the rest to provide that eternal footprint to be left on the world’s stage. Many works from art history have captured her eye, but her heart has been captured by the works of the Masters of Traditional Realism, such as Andrew Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent, and Rembrandt, as well as the Photorealists, such as Ralph Goings. Her style has been described as thoughtful and almost meditative. It is tight and precise, and not surprisingly reminiscent of...