Ideally all of my portraits would have followed this process. I would have spent the entire time with the sitter working out their position after marking the space with a viewfinder. Then I would have spent days pondering what to do with the background, so that both background and subject could work well with each other. But everything in …
Some people have asked me how I feel being here for six weeks. Six weeks is more than triple the time I’ve spent in Puerto Rico at any vacation since I left in 1985. I have not spent the holidays here either, due to the high cost of travel at this time of the year. The answer is predictably …
Portrait number ten took place on the 15th floor of a condominium in the middle of a weather system that spanned several days. The wind was so strong it lifted my heavy easel! I had not done a closeup since the first portrait for this series, to I decided to paint the sitter up close. At times during this …