Photo reference of my new twins

[Chris Saper]

HI Jennifer,

Many congratulations! They look so healthy and beautiful.

I would pass on this as photo resource material and let it remain a photo. It's nearly impossilbe to photograph infants so that you can get good material, unless you have an adult or older sibling holding them. Otherwise you're left to look down at them from above (as in your reference), or past their little double chins up their little noses. I have seen, though several very successful portraits of infants lying on their stomachs, sleeping etc., when the viewer is at eye level with the baby.

Compositionally, as they are arranged in your photo, there's sort of a "spider" composition that invites the eye to move out of the canvas in several different directions.

Why don't you start with some images of your husband holding one, then both twins (if that's possible!) , where you set up a nice natural light source, and a composition where they relate to one another?

You will paint those twins more times than you can imagine!