Ms. Maryam 瑪莉安小姐

Here is my dear friend Maryam when she was 23.  Both she and I came to US on the same date, August 16, 1976, as graduate students.  She arrived in NY while I arrived in LA.  We both ended up in Texas working for the same company in the same IT project.  What a blessing in life to get to know each other from two different cultures and became good friends.

I used one of Maryam's black and white photos as a reference and painted it in color.  I continue enjoying painting portraits and/or figures for people who I know or met during my travel journey.

Oil on canvas board, 14x11, private collection