My friend and colleague, Kathy Strauss, is a graphic designer. She and her husband/business partner GC own Imagewerks. Today she showed me a watercolor portrait GC painted from a photograph for a website. I was gob smacked. It was absolutely beautiful, clean, simple and if this makes sense—emotional. My immediate and uncensored reaction was I wanted to meet the woman.

I remember growing up how “rich people” had huge ostentatious oil portraits of their families in their Living Rooms. This was NOTHING like that. GC’s rendering style would be a wonderful addition to a residential design scheme. Either to serve as a reminder of a loved one passed on or of the children as they currently are.

And imagine how much better a simple watercolor portrait would look on a business card instead of those cheesy Real Estate headshots. My favorite snack food, FoodShouldTasteGood Multigrain Tortilla Chips, has a drawing of the chip on the bag, instead of a photo. I know it is really just a chip, cuz for gosh sakes I read the bad news on the back, but the bag makes them seem CLASSY. And good for you.