painted family portraits...

a client of mine is thinking about having a family portrait painting commissioned for her newly renovated house we are working on. she mentioned that she saw this artist recently, sarah pedigo, and i immediately said 'YES, do it, these are wonderful!' i don't usually like paintings of people particularly, especially when they fall under the super realism realm and try to hard to look like a photograph. but these are more an abstract realism and apparently the artist can take several photographs and work them into a scene (or so she told my client) like some of these...