Just a few hours more work on Ben-  I think I must have a total of eighteen or twenty in now- not much in the great scheme of things.  Two notes on that- letting the linen take it's course, that is to say, not painting a background, accounts for a lot of the relative speed, but just knowing the subject- after all- I've watched Ben just about every day of his life- cuts down on how much information I have to glean from purely visual sources. Things to file in the "what I know about painting" box.