"Anastacia's Datura" was awarded Finalist in the International Artist Magazine Still Life & Floral Challenge #47.  The full-page article can be found on page 22 of the October/November 2008 issue #63.

The article consists of three sections...My Inspiration, My Design Strategy and My Working Process.  Here is an excerpt from the article. "The choice of using this particular flower came by suggestion of my mother-in-law, Anastacia Pacheco.  The Datura's intoxicating purple, as well as its mesmerizing trumpet shape, serves as the inspiration and the subject matter of my painting"