I like to doodle and sketch between paintings in order to come up with ideas.  Doodling away one day, I produced an image that astonished me: a “wedding cake boat” that harkened back to kindergarten!  I remember standing at an easel, donned with a plastic apron and wielding large, clumsy brushes loaded with poster paint.  The imagery I created decades later: my kindergarten version of ocean liners with stories stacked up like a wedding cake.  So much fun to paint!  Then more imagery evolved, also to do with travel: choo-choo trains. 

Wedding Cake Boats /Choo Choo Trains