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Time @ Easel
I thought Michael was saying that the time needed to execute a single given portrait can be expected to go down when the painter has had a great deal of hands-on practice over dozens, scores or hundreds of paintings leading up to the current portrait. In the main, I would agree. Practice has allowed me to improve my craft, just as practice does for the concert pianist, or the tennis player.
One thing I discovered for myself recently that reduces the time required to paint a portrait, and to paint a better portrait at that, is to get all the decisions made in one or more scaled-down preliminary color note(s). I don't know if it was Gerome who said it, but it was to the effect that he "never picked up his brush until he knew exactly what the painting was going to look like."
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