Unrequited

Just another little story from my head, painted in Gouache on paper.
I only started painting in Gouache last year, and it has quickly become my favorite medium to work with. For those who have never worked with it, it's an opaque water color favored by designers.

I learned about it while on a vacation to Disneyland. As long as I can remember, one of my Disney musts was to visit the little watch shop on Main Street, where an artists would work on painting the image of choice while sitting at a drafting table in the front window of the shop. If you were lucky enough to afford to have a watch made you got to keep the original painting and a watch with the image shrunk to fit the watch face. (unfortunately I have get to be able to afford one....someday *dramatically shakes fist here* SOMEDAY!!)
I finally got up the nerve to interrupt the artist at work and in true "vintage" Disney fashion she very kindly told me everything I wanted to know.

Sorry, to explain the "Vintage", I grew up going to Disneyland, as old as this makes me sound, the level of service has continued a downward slide over the last 10 years. Now it seems like they are more interested in getting you in and out of their hair as quickly as possible than giving you that surreal-ly pleasant Disney experience I grew up to know and love. Though you can still find employees there that started back when this was the standard.