Thank you both! I will not tell which one Sharon.
Mike I call it a figurative piece because it is not the way you would usually find my daughter. On my 40 th, oops I meant 30th birthday a friend gave me the lace "Cathollic head dress" from pre_Vatican II days for gift wrap. So with all the piercings in her ears I thought a small tattoo would work, but I'll save that for last.
I will tell you from progress today, it is frightening to look at all the dark space around the figure. So I have been busy downloading other "master portraits" to see (the best I can) how they handled the darkness. I also re-read a lot of the Leffel book, the one with the green apples since he seemed to love this challange.
I must say, so far this is some of the nicest "skin" I have painted. I grabbed the thread where Marvin (whose workshop I am attending in NC this June) actually told his palette colors!
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