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.
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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.