00:00 You never know how long these things are going to take.
00:02 They tend to have a bit of a life of their own.
00:04 When he became king halfway through, that in a way made it more interesting.
00:09 I was able to sort of see the shift in the body language.
00:13 Sometimes you sort of talk about these things metaphorically,
00:16 but actually to be able to visibly see someone gain stature
00:19 and become more comfortable in themselves is a really interesting thing.
00:22 You use these and a bit of the recollection of being with them.
00:26 And what you want is to recreate the sense of being with someone,
00:29 which is a moving person obviously, a three-dimensional one,
00:33 and try and show a few elements of their personality,
00:37 sometimes contradictory ones.
00:39 He'll pretend to laugh at your jokes.
00:42 He's funny and curious and interested.
00:45 He's good at putting people at their ease.
00:48 All of us have our biography etched into our faces.
00:51 There's more of the weight of the world on his shoulders once he's become king.
00:55 But he hadn't lost a sense of humour
00:57 and his curiosity about lots of different things,
00:59 always asking questions and interested in everything.
01:02 I didn't sense anything wrong particularly.
01:06 And also I think when you've got cancer,
01:09 it's often towards the end of the treatment that it actually takes a more physical toll.
01:15 I mean there's always people who disagree with you on how to paint these things.
01:21 People agree with how I've done it,
01:23 but I think it's a bit different from the other royal portraits I've seen.
01:26 The colour was part of that,
01:28 just playing with this idea of mysticism
01:30 and the way we still buy into the idea of the royal family being a bit different from us in some way.
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