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[Mike McCarty]

Greetings to all, have just returned from an 18 day college tour of New England.

Regarding the above discussion... In a previous life I was a custom home builder. Large expensive homes for people with equally large opinions and egos. It was a hazardous job for many reasons and has amazing similarities to the process of creating a commissioned portrait. When I reflect on those times when I was in the most trouble it was because I had allowed the client to control the process. I became either to timid or just exhausted in the face of their will. The client does not understand all that lies before you and they will not own any responsibility for the final deficiencies, nor should they.