Armory Art show blends ceramics, paintings by students and instructors Palm Beach Daily News What does a portrait study done in only three hours look like? If you’re thinking along the lines of a quick sketch or drawing, you haven’t seen Aya Bendat’s painting “The Queen of Sheba.” “I worked quickly that day, just going off the image in my head. I don’t take drugs but I think that’s what it would feel like, this almost desperation to create,” Bendat said. The model for “Queen of Sheba” was Nicole Escalera, coordinator of Outreach and Family programs at the Norton Museum of Art from 2018 to 2019, who Bendat met while working as a docent at the museum.