Talking about creative issues.....help

[Carol Norton]

If they want you to 'conjure up the magic', then wave that brush, maestro!

Give them the 'rush feeling' of being in control of you - for once in their lives. [/QUOTE]
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MARCUS, YOU ARE BRILLIANT! Showmanship may be the answer to that client of an all too familiar breed. Magic! Wave the brush. I truly will remember that. Thanks for your wisdom.

I cannot help to relate to this story. Upon receipt, a recent commission found a "spot" that had to be viewed with a MAGNIFYING glass. The painting was returned. It happened to be a bubble from Liquin. Yes, it took a magnifying glass to see it. Initially that was the only thing verbalized. Oh, yes, later I heard that the portrait was "lovely." I guess we need to recall that portraiture is a BUSINESS and that we need to separate ourselves from the personal part.

Got the painting back, took a thumbnail to the bubble visible only outside in the AZ sunlight, flicked if off and revarnished that pinhead spot. Yes, magic. And all with a smile. A second commission was forthcoming. Moral: Don't burn bridges or you could be on the part that hits the water.

No, I'm not related to Aesop.

[Michele Rushworth]

some of the worst photos ever that she had given me. ( I know, I know, I needed to refuse the photos and for that I am guilty .)

You answered your own question here, I think. Thank her for commissioning you but let her know you can't make a painting that you can be proud of from these photos .... and then end the contract (returning whatever payment seems appropriate). No one will be happy if you keep beating this dead horse.

[Steven Sweeney]

Though I