The process begins with a light charcoal sketch and then the artist builds up a monochrome grisaille underpainting. She uses an indirect method, adding a layer after layer, making her paintings more and more detailed. It is a time-consuming process which ends with the gradual adding of color with both transparent glazes and full bodied color. As a result, the surface becomes egg shell smooth and it offers very delicate tonal variations impossible with other painting methods. The artist prefers to paint flesh with a realistic range of colors rather that use homogenized brownish skin tones some other artists employ. All of her artworks are oil on aluminum, and that decision came after she was asked to paint a portrait for a family who lived in Burma, where the humidity levels are very high. She originally mounted the linen on the aluminum panels but soon found out she enjoyed working on the panels without the linen.