Portrait of a lady...

I enjoy waking up everyday looking forward to the work I do. Meeting new people, becoming a part of their lives, and creating an artwork that will last long after the person and the family are gone. This is a posthumous portrait...much more difficult to produce for me. I rely on the personality, the humor, the voice, the visual physique, the movement of the person to dictate how the painting should be completed. With the posthumous portrait, I must gleen all that informtation second hand from family and friends of the subject. This is a graphite detail from one of the sketches we are considering...