So many faces, so little time!

Who's next? Whenever I finish a painting, that's the question I'm faced with. Almost every day I think of someone else I'd like to paint, and at the rate of about one painting a month, the list ain't gonna get any shorter!

There's just too much choice! Putting together the scrapbook has shown me so many faces I want to update, be it a portrait I want to caricature, like Eddie Izzard, or something I was never satisfied with, like Noel Gallagher. And then there's the people who I've been meaning to paint for years, but someone else always got in the way, like Ronnie O'Sullivan, and Bill Murray. And then I'll think of someone who would be fun to caricature and I want to do it right away, like Jack Black or Peter Kay. But then, people have been complaining that there aren't enough female faces on the site, so I think maybe Lucy Liu or Kate Winslet. And that's before I consider all the friends and family I'd love to draw or paint.

Sometimes the choice of who to paint can get in the way of actually starting a painting. Recently, whilst working on my latest painting of Fan Wei, I've been making sketches of people I want to paint, and looking at them to inspire me as to who should be my next victim. As for who it will be, it's still too early to tell, but potential candidates are: Jack Black, Andy Lau, Owen Wilson, Faye Wong, Thom Yorke, Steven Chow, Lucy Liu, Mike Myers . . . the list goes on. Maybe I'll just throw a dart and see where it lands . . .