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Yesterday and today's practice has been based on the photograph of an old painting of what is a woman in a folk costume who is either Russian, Ukrainian or from one of the other former Soviet Union countries because of that costume.  Unfortunately, there is no citation information available.

The sketch was done with mechanical pencil (0.5mm).  The image was painted in with Japanese watercolors after outlining the headscarf, color and sleeves with white Uni-Ball Signo pen in order for that white to show through the paint.  The gold in the headpiece and other areas was done with a gold Sakura PenTouch marker while the dots, having some texture, coming from dabs of Golden Iridescent Gold (Deep; Fine) liquid acrylic.  

For the head tilt, I've used a technique recommended from an artist friend.  Thank you, Pegret, because it came out very well!  Normally, my faces haven't been as fully tilted to -- as faithfully -- simulate the source image as possible.

That said, I'm pretty pleased with this.  The hands were the most challenging, and they've come out ok.  Looking at the piece as I post this, I see one area that may need a bit of paint to cover up some of one of the hands.  Other than that, it's done.

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