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This was really special and hilarious. I was without a car for a while and walking everywhere - and one day I had a painting I'd done under my arm. As I came through the security point where we live, Ayanda our beautiful high-cheeked gate guard asked to see and asked me to paint her. So under the guise of night, I went one evening and we fitted into a narrow corridor and kitchen where the cameras wouldn't reach. Everything was set up and ready but my live model just couldn't sit still. And I don't mean just fidgety. She looked left, right, at her feet, at her phone, stood up, walked around... to which I laughed and said "you can't still! Not for a minute." Ayanda laughed her beautiful big grin and agreed. good news for someone who would be on night shift for the next few hours. So I took a hazy photograph under the fluorescent lights, and finished the piece in my studio.