"Best Your The Heart" (Miniature Gouache Seascape—Framed Original)

About This PaintingAt the Boys & Girls Club a little girl ran out of space to write “you’re the best” at the bottom of the self-portrait she made for me. “Best” got crammed in at the top of the page. She drew a small crooked heart next to “the.” That drawing in teal colored pencil on school notebook paper has been hanging on my fridge for months now, happily trumpeting “Best Your The ♡,” and I wanted this mini seascape with its impossible rolling waves and candy-like clouds to have the same energy.About This ListingThis is a 4x4 studio gouache painting completed on professional-grade watercolor paper mounted to a cradled wooden panel 1.5 inches thick. To protect the water-based gouache paint from moisture, the painting has been lovingly treated with a three-step varnishing process consisting of a spray varnish suitable for water-based media, an isolation coat, and two coats of UV-resistant gloss varnish. The basswood panel has been sealed with buffed finishing wax to increase its l