These time-lapse videos are of the live alla-prima portrait sessions of Portraits From Havre De Grace. These sessions are 3 hours and children's sessions are shorter at 1.5 to 2 hours.

I documented nearly all of the 119 portrait sessions with a time-lapse video. I felt it was important to document these sessions for several reasons. 

I believe there is something to be learned from watching an artist process. It has taken me decades to get to a point that I feel I have something solid to share. But that being said process is always changing and to be an artist is to change and to grow. 

In comparing videos you can se subtle changes in my approach. There are days where I experiment sometimes successfully sometimes not. There can be no success without failure so never be afraid to fail, it's just part of the process. 

This twelve month long project of 12x12 alla-prima portraits forced me to focus on the same problems over and over but with a different model each time. There where so many challenges besides the obvious.