2019

Three artist friends and I get together from time to time to paint portraits of a variety of people, sometimes we know them, sometimes they're professional models. In contrast to many painting groups, we encourage our sitters to talk while they're posing so we can get to know them as individuals instead of simply objects in a composition.
Often the sessions are like a collaboration between the artists and the model, and many of the models are artists themselves. Armadia talked about her experiences as a fashion model, and dancer and a feminist. She has the grace of a dancer and reminded me of a cat, so I gave her a cat's pupil on one of her eyes.