The hardest part of this one was deciding on the color of the background.  For contrast, it needed something dark on one side and a lighter color on the other.  What I was looking for was a light lavender.  But there are no Sharpies of that color in my collection.  So, I chose a darker purple for the right side.  I tried grey on the left and found it too dark.  So, I covered it up with the same purple and lightened it with a pearlescent white mixed with a tad of blue and violet (the dots).  The reason for doing that is to help the purple in the hair on that side to 'pop' a bit.  The pearlescent dot color was also used for the highlights in the eyes.   
My profile photo was highjacked ! For those of you who are blogging, be wary. There are some unscrupulous folks out there who may be using or about to use a photo(s) you've uploaded to an online photo-hosting site. At the time I created a blog, having a URL for a photo uploaded online was the only way to insert a photo in your profile or to create a custom header. There had been no problems for a long while. This morning, however, I did a Google image search for my name and found my photo linked to a totally different blog than my own!  It is possible I didn't mark my file with the online photo-hosting site as private, but I didn't expect this to happen. I don't know whether marking it private would have actually averted the situation, but I'm not waiting to find out. I eliminated my membership to that online photo-hosting service today and caution anyone to be careful with uploading images to the internet . If you read the terms of agreement at many sites, you'...

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