hen I am doing a portrait, I prefer to work from the person. That gives me more detail to work from. It gives me more understanding of the moods and feelings of the subject. Nevertheless, for this demonstration I had to use a reference photograph because my model, Philip Strutt (Phil), is a very busy man. I have wanted to do a portrait of him for a long time. We had discussed this before but could not get to it because of his busy schedule. I am not a great believer of using the “grid”. Even when I am working from a
