IT’S A WOEFUL EFFECT of rather male-dominated art history that there aren’t more great paintings of children. One thinks of the wonderful works of art of Mary Cassatt and even the great Norman Rockwell, as painters who painted children’s lives rather than using children as an adjunct to a story or just included in a formal portrait. It’s true that children being children do make it more difficult. They don’t like to sit still for any length of time or be quiet for long periods, so arranging a sitting is not easy. Also, a child has a very subtle structure, as compared to an adult.
So, for this How To I wanted to discuss some of the problems and pleasures of
