Quite a bit of explanation is necessary here:

This painting was the very first I ever did, and it was done when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. I've never displayed it, because my teacher came and drew on it in black sharpie, then told me to finish what she had started. She said that the feathers needed more delineation, and proceeded to give them what she thought they needed. Needless to say, I was furious and simply folded the painting up (hence the creases) and put it in the attic, swearing off painting forever. Fast forward 18 years or so, and we find ourselves in the present day. I found it in my parents' attic and brought it home, still folded up. I decided that I was going to display it anyway, as a milestone. I've always loved the design, though my rendering of it leaves much to be desired... and promptly dug through my frames to find one that would look alright with it. It was a bit worse the wear for being in the attic under a tin roof for almost two decades with no air conditioning or heating, so I pulled out some paint and dirtied it up so that the creases wouldn't look so out of place, and also so I could divorce myself from the image I've carried in my head of my teacher drawing on it.

The design I took from an Irish coin my father brought back for me from one of his trips to Ireland. The framed size is 25" x 25".