I worked as an art model for many years. One painter I worked for privately also did portrait commissions. She was working on one of a young boy who had red hair. His mother was concerned there was too much red in the kid's hair in the portrait. The artist was frustrated; she had met the child and was oslty working from a photograph (which is not how she prefers to work but the parents agreed to this). She finally realized after meeting the dad (who was a full-blown carrot-top) that the mom was somehow embarrassed about having a redhead for a kid and wanted to think the red hair gene would be bred out somehow...

She did some gorgeous paintings of me; I wish I could afford to buy one of them. She did gift me with a color study sketch for a painting we did not end up doing, while she was cleaning out her studio.

She is very talented and has a real gift for painting the figure; her use of color is romantic but not overblown, and she does not mix her paints too much so as to have tiny ribbons of color in the final painting...