Painted portraits have the unfortunate reputation of being still, staid, and even stagnant-looking representations of their models.  That is not the tradition from which I hail.  I have more respect for caricature artists than for the mannered and stuffy portraitists that pretend to know what a likeness is about. 

The caricaturist understands that it is not the exact replication of features that creates a real portrait of the model.  Instead they focus on the model’s breath and movement.  They know that if they can capture something about the subject’s attitude—the way the individual carries themselves—they will have a portrait in the truest sense of the word.

Since I work from photographs, my greatest hurdle in capturing something of the model’s natural dynamism is the camera.  Almost everyone freezes up in front of a camera.