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TOM ROOT Paintings and Drawings from Life
Portraits Paintings Drawings Nature Study Music Biography Links Contact		The work on these pages is painted solely from life, from live sittings with real people or out in the open-air landscape. For better or worse, this is the way it pleases me to work. While the main purpose of this site is to show my wares as a portraitist, I wish to point out that I paint portraits because I love to, and that I require a considerable degree of freedom in executing commissions in order to stay interested. That said, I have found my adventures in commissioned portraiture over the years to have been happy experiences for all concerned. left: Heather in Black, detail, oil on canvas