This e-mail came from a woman who had commissioned a portrait of her daughter, after receiving an e-mailed image of my drawing:

 

“Sandy,  I couldn’t respond immediately because I couldn’t see the keyboard through the mist!

It is AMAZING!!!

[My husband] is so critical of artwork and he is your biggest fan. 

I think you made him cry!

I see myself in it and that’s amazing ! ...

You are so talented.

You see the soul of your subject.

 

I can’t thank you enough.  Really.

Wow.”