Jean, I read your post and have a suggestion. For some time now my wife and I have had dinner guests from our congregation over once a week. Then, after dinner I paint one of the guests. Aside from the buzz this has generated, it has helped me paint faster and more powerfully than I ever dreamed I could. It has also helped my confidence level so that I actually enjoy the rush of painting as performance art -not that I dance around or anything! My suggestion is that you round up a bunch of friends and paint them, forcing yourself to paint under the same time constraints as your demo. If you can fit 8 or 10 portrait sketches in beforehand, you
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