When I started the animal portrait series, I always thought it would be amazing to create a portrait of a Skunk. Of course, the challenge with many of my pieces is finding animals that are tame enough to sit through one of my portrait sessions. After months of emailing and weaving through a web of friends and animal owners I found someone who had rescued Bandit when he was a baby and had nursed him back to health. Many ask, did he spray you… I’d like to leave that question open-ended.