Portrait of a beautiful young lady

[Gita]

I have started to paint the portrait of a young lady wearing an indian Saree and holding a Tambura. I made a photo collage (photo App)and placed her on a pompous ancient throne to suit the ambience. The face is from another close up photo. The small spots are written numbers for the colours.
This young lady is a perfectionist and I hope to fulfill her expectations.
The canvas is big approx. 160 x 60.
I request your critical opinion and suggestions to make this a good painting. Love to hear your thoughts to this.

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[EmmaLee]

Wow, that’s a big canvas. It looks great so far and I have no doubt you will meet or even exceed her expectations. I’m excited to see this one come together.

[MaryAnne Long]

Gita,

This is going to be stunning if it ends up as good as it is starting.

aloha

mea

[Gita]

Thank you Emma Lee, Thank you Mea! The contours of the face has to be adjusted still. I think I spent quite some time to get the similarity, which is not 100% at present. The rest of the painting will be hopefully less tedious.

[csebesta]

Wonderful so far, excited to see the finished product!

Charles

[Gita]

Thanks Charles, I am looking forward to meet the challenges of painting the Saree folds and the golden designs. Not sure if I should use paint with gold in it.

[Gita]

This young lady had not given me the permission yet to present the information that she is related to me.. 🤫 🤐. But now I can! 😃 She is my only child and daughter.👶🏻 She really does not like to wear a Saree. The photo was made specially for this purpose.
So painting a face which I know the best is not at all easy... 🤷🏻‍♀️.

[Aniz Oniro]

Gita this will be fantastic painting

[csebesta]

Really nice job on the facial features, and I can certainly see the resemblence to you avatar.  Nice work!

Good luck with the gold and folds, I have a lot of fun painting folds, but never as much as what I am sure you will.  There is a lot there.

My only work on gold was for gold foil on a champagne bottle.  There I used yellow ochre as the base,raw umber to darken, and white and cad yellow to lighten as I recall.  I am sure there must be a better way, but I liked how mine turned out. You will get it right for sure.

This will be exceptional when you are done.

Charles

[Happychappy]

  Gita, as per usual, you are doing a wonderful job and I admire your work.   Patricia

[nolan]

Beautiful so far. 

You can darken the neck another shade to make the face stand out further

[Gita]

Thank you Aniz!
Charles, your experience of colour mixing is really a great help.
Thank you Patricia!
And Nolan I did darken the neck and the face has lighted up. Thank you for suggesting.
Will post after doing some more work on this.

[Elizabeth]

  Whow! Stunning so far. This is going to be a real winner!

[Sacgal/Sharon]

Oh Gita - your daughter is beautiful! And your painting is off to a terrific start. Keep posting for us to see!

[Gita]

Thanks Sharon, will do. I am bit slow at present due to other important life issues.