To create my paintings I take a life cast from the model using plaster of paris bandages. The model's skin is coated with vaseline and their clothes with plastic as a resist. Strips of bandages are dipped in warm water (the chemical reaction involved in the hardening also makes the plaster warm) and then placed on the model. Other than the bottom of the nose to allow breathing, the model's face is completely covered. Hair that can not be effectively covered in plastic I later add to the cast using bandages and working from photographs.

The bandages take about 5 minutes to set; the cast is then pulled off the model. The cast then goes to my studio for further work.

The edges of the cast are made level and a plywood frame and backing is cut out. Small pieces of canvas are fitted inside the plaster cast and pinned in place. Once the cast is completely lined with canvas fiberglass resin is brushed in. The fiberglass resin fuses the canvas pieces together and makes them hold the form of the cast. The canvas has limits to how subtle it can be plus the process means that distortions to the form can happen; even so, the unpainted canvas form has much human and individual presence.

When the resin sets, the plaster mold is ripped off, leaving the traditional canvas. The canvas is stapled to the plywood frame and painted based upon photographs of the model.