Face the fear
My relationship with portraits has changed. When it comes to the subject matter of a painting, I'd give anything a go, except faces. So, in the past, if people featured in my paintings it was usually from behind. This was based on an assumption I couldn't do faces. And then I thought about it again. What was that based on? I'd never actually tried. So it was the fear of the unknown and failure that had closed it off to me. But I'd never done rockets before I painted a rocket