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Day Job
While it normally takes me 4 to 5 weeks of 8-hour per day sessions to paint a portrait, I finished most of the Janine Jansen portrait in the first two weeks of August, but the circumstances were unusual: First, my wife and child were in the States with my parents so I had no familial distractions. Second, most of Western Europe was experiencing a fierce heat wave creating no incentive to frequent cafes let alone go outside. Fortunately I had a portable air conditioning unit in my studio enabling me to work 13-15 hour days.
The stamina came in largely from the subject matter, being a big classical music fan, and the knowledge the portrait would be exhibited.
When you do this kind of work for a living you soon realize only part of your time is spent applying paint to a canvas. There
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