The subject may sit daily for about a week, or the schedule can be compressed or drawn out according to circumstances. If the subject is not available to sit, I base the portrait on photographs. When the subject is living, I prefer to meet him or her and shoot the photographs myself, if the circumstances permit. When I paint young children I like to spend some time observing them at play, take photographs and make sketches, and develop the portrait from these. The work may be viewed at all stages of its progress.
Many sitters enjoy watching the portrait evolve.
Also, the subject is free, in fact encouraged, to converse, or to listen to music or recorded books. See copyright information for complete details.