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A blue vase with fruit and small flowers stands still, reflecting shafts of light upward in the background. Most people would attribute such carefully rendered detail to many years of training, but Texan artist Fran Di Giacomo was a flight attendant for 17 years before becoming a full-time artist in 1982. Di Giacomo painstakingly arranges objects for her richly colored paintings, sometimes taking days to find the right balance and composition.