Monique Straub Studio/Gallery in downtown San Diego's Little Italy showcases the original oil and soft-pastel paintings of San Diego-born artist Monique Straub from the Studio Arts Building at 2400 Kettner Boulevard. Straub's vividly colored landscape and botanical canvases are painted with archival-quality pigments and oil mediums on gallery-wrapped 1.5-inch-depth stretcher bars, a production standard shared with the reproduction output at San Diego Canvas Prints nearby. Training at Scottsdale Artists School informs a compositional approach that emphasizes movement, design, and saturated color over photorealistic rendering, with work published in Professional Artist Magazine, San Diego Home & Garden, Pastel Journal, and Art Collector Magazine. The gallery's Kettner Boulevard address places it in Little Italy's Art & Design district alongside contemporary artists including Stefanie Bales Fine Art, drawing collectors during events like the annual Mission Federal ArtWalk where Straub has been selected as a Featured Artist. The most substantial projects are large-format custom commissions in which Straub develops an original oil painting from client-supplied reference photographs through a multi-stage sketching and painting process.