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Old 12-18-2003, 04:33 PM   #6
Linda Brandon Linda Brandon is offline
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I've probably posted this idea before, so forgive me if I repeat myself here...

Older people make wonderful models. I ask all my friends who have their parents visiting them to send them to me. I pay higher than minimum wage but, well, not that much higher, and I give them coffee or tea and something to eat. I try to include model fees in my monthly painting "budget" (such as it is). Best of all, I get to talk with them and learn about their lives. (Sometimes they fall asleep, which probably says a lot about how exciting I am.)

I'm often told that our session was the first time in decades that another human being has really looked at the sitter. It's such a win/win situation. If my sitter likes the painting/drawing (they don't always!) I make a free photocopy of it for him or her.
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