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Good point, Linda. I do see what you're saying. I haven't been faced with a situation in which exposed teeth would be a disaster, but that's a good ploy to get yourself out of painting such a thing. Normally I go with the client's preference in pose and expression because they know what aspect of the subject they're interested in memorializing in paint. Often it's not the expression I would have chosen, but when I suggest another one they always have an excellent reason why they would prefer theirs.
Sometimes the expression that I think looks best or most attractive is the forced smile the child offers to a stranger, sometimes it's the look of the child when he's about to try to pull something over on the parent, and sometimes it's just not the expression that the client fell in love with when he first met his wife, while the other one is. But it's useful to have rationales to offer if a client's about to commission a horror.
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