Beth’s portrait is half of a diptych.  I painted the matching portrait two years earlier.  I like doing diptychs, but I usually paint both portraits at the same time—except, of course, when I don’t…

In 2007, I exhibited a series of matched paintings in which both portraits were of the same model.  I created half of the eight diptychs in 2006 and completed each of them with a second painting the following year.  Each of the diptychs shows the subjects before and after a major physical change.  In 2006, Swollen’s “before” images had me trying to plan for an “after” that I could not yet know!

To learn more about the making of Beth’s portrait, please visit this article on my blog.