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Thanks!
It's been a very high pressure process, getting to this point -- and I haven't even started the painting yet! The unveiling a few months from now promises to be in a league of its own too, as far as pressure. The contract negotiations alone were a whole new world to me. My usual family portrait contract is two pages long, intentionally non-intimidating. The State's contract had 12 pages. (Thanks so much to those Forum participants who very kindly offered behind the scenes help during the contract phase of the discussions!)
It's been a whole order of magnitude more intense than anything I've done before. During today's photo shoot, for example, there were a lot of people coming in and out of his office. The Governor of Oregon stopped by to chat, the Chief of Staff came in to alert the Governor to some potential security situation, the First Lady came in to videotape, etc. (Maintaining my focus during all that was almost as difficult as working with a wiggly three year old who doesn't want to hold still for the camera. I think my experience during those kind of shoots helped me to concentrate today!)
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