[Timothy C. Tyler]

Unless we go after the specifics in front of us, especially in doing portraits, we miss the minor things that make folks recognizable. All humans can ID an old friend from great distances, we are very good at seeing those small things that added together mean total identity. To do any thing else (than to see and paint these) is to paint a somewhat generic portrait, which is too often just a conglomeration of presumations and looks weak very naturally.