Using Processing, I wrote the Portrait Generator as a way to generate images that would both act on their own and inform my painting process. Provided a collection of images of a person, the program 'grows' a composite portrait. After selecting a seed image and starting position, it recursively enumerates the portrait by selecting portions of the remaining images which logically fit adjacent to those already present until the image is complete. This exercise resulted in a system that constructs a whole portrait that encapsulates many of its subject's unique facets.