Long Beach Farmers Market Canvas Print

An Early morning farmer's market in Downtown Long Beach near the convention center. In 2008, I attended a swimming pool industry convention with my husband and we walked to the convention center each morning. There was a local farmer�s market on Saturday and I took pictures with the idea of someday painting it. When ACA challenged us to paint a scene from a California city in 2011, I chose this. It turned out it was too "anonymous" for the judge, but I consider it to be one of my best efforts.
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Gail Daley is a self-taught artist and writer with a background in business. An omnivorous reader, she was inspired by her son, also a writer, to finish some of the incomplete novels she had begun over the years. She is heavily involved in local art groups and fills her time reading, writing, painting in acrylics, and spending time with her husband of 40 plus years. Currently her family is owned by two cats, a mischievous young cat called Mab (after the fairy queen of air and darkness) and a mellow Gray Princess named Moonstone. In the past, the family shared their home with many dogs, cats and a Guinea Pig, all of whom have passed over the rainbow bridge. A recent major surgery on her stomach and a bout with breast cancer has slowed her...