Everything you paint looks like your wife to you

Little Pictures
beginning a new project. a series of large miniatures, where detail has been painted like background, or as if you yourself were a macro lens for painting.

had painted a woman's torso, and photographed it to exp with cropping, and realized that the detail was more intriguing. so won't waste time putting down what everyone knows already, i.e., she has a chin, or the top of a head. ten pp of painting about someone's hands is not interesting, in this case...