9x12 graphite/white charcoal. Another portrait of one the hard-working girls who employed at the local Starbucks where I draw. Petite in stature but a giant in determination and discipline she has just left to go to school to become a Veternarian Technician but has dreams of one day being an animal foster parent. Raising baby exotic endangered wild animals even the creepy crawly kind until they grow large enough to be released into the wild. Setting her sights on Australia to live and work in or any continent for that fact if she had her choice. I hope she makes it. Christa is actually the first of 12-16 portraits. I’m giving one employee a month a free portrait. I decided to this since they surprised me by making me customer of the month for December 2007. I also do this because I grew up in what used to be a middle-class turned upscale well-to-do town which I have since returned to. Finding that all the employees are not from the town but commute from urban setting or other middle-class setting I know they deserve it a lot more. Note: if you are on Redbubble.com and already commented on this piece no further comments necessary.