Monique has an extraordinary talent for weaving portraits. They are realistic, sensitive and striking. First, she photographs her model. Then she draws a detailed black-and-white, ready-to-weave "cartoon," or pattern. She places the cartoon behind the warp, but the colors and textures are not planned. "Those come from my mind" – she said in a Los Angeles Times interview June 12, 1988. She blends fibers just as she was taught to blend paint.