On March 4, 2011 I went to see Marie Digby perform at a small venue at the La Puente Mall in La Puente, California. I’ve followed Marié’s career since she first started on Youtube doing covers of popular pop songs. I remember one time I was at Target and was looking in the CD section and saw her first album selling for $7.99. So I bought it and ever since then it has been in rotation in my cars CD player.

About 2 weeks prior to going to her concert I decided to do an oil painting of her first album. I thought it would be a great challenge and often times all I need to paint is inspiration. I documented the steps I took in painting this piece which can be seen below. When I got to the concert and during her Meet-and-Greet I showed her images from my phone. In one of the pictures you can see her face light up.