About the work

A closer look.

Most portraits start with a face. Mine starts with a sentence. Before I draw anyone, I write the exact moment I would keep: the half-turn, the light nobody arranged, the thing under the face that the photo almost caught. You read that first. If it is wrong, nothing moves. If it is right, I make the image from it, so the picture has a spine instead of a pose. What you get: one written moment (roughly a paragraph) and one finished image of one or two people, any background, 3 days, two rounds of notes. First look is free. Send who it is and one true thing about them, and I answer with the light I would use, the angle, and the one detail I would keep. That read is yours whether or not you order. If I cannot see a moment in it, I say so straight. I will not copy a real, named person's face onto someone else. Send a reference and you are saying you have the right to it.