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April 2, 2007 Funny Face  Quirky is one of the first words that comes to mind when people think of Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's character, Holly Golightly. Who else would bring a Cracker Jack ring to Tiffany for engraving, or seek solace at the famous jewelry store when she's too afraid to face the rest of the world?Now another Golightly, real-life Portland artist Lisa Golightly, is channeling that same loveable wit and eccentricity into children's portrait paintings. Golightly, a photographer who used to have her own greeting card company, wanted to come up with a fun way to display her own children's photographs while capturing the "spirit of childhood wonder and imagination." So she spiced things up a bit with mixed media portraits. She'll take a digital photograph sent in by a client and weave it into a fun acrylic painting. Customers can choose a painting from the gallery on Golightly's Kiki & Polly website. "Singin' in the Rain," "Follow the Leader" (which features a boy soaring through the sky on a paper airplane) and "The Wish" are just a few of the options. Golightly hand paints the picture onto a canvas and then transfers the image of your little one's noggin to complete the portrait. Custom-designed paintings are also available. The finished product is a gallery-ready painting on a 1.5-inch thick canvas in varying sizes. Who exactly are Kiki & Polly? Kiki is the name of the bird Golightly's daughter befriended, and Polly was her daughter's imaginary pal. And the name of Lisa Golightly's daughter? What else – Holly Golightly. Available online at kikiandpolly.com. |
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