A young woman in profile wears a golden-yellow jacket and a blue and white striped headwrap, her blonde hair pulled back in a long tail, as she blows a large translucent bubble of gum against a deep black background. The painting merges classical portraiture with playful contemporary irreverence, rendered in soft, luminous tones that make the bubble glow like a pearl suspended in darkness. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.