Portrait Progress

Many, many hours; still so far to go! But here is my progress thus far. She is moving from meek and mild to wild child, don't you think? It's the hair. When I first met her, she was sitting with a window behind her and her hair was aglow around her head, like a golden aura or halo. I wanted to have some of that here, even though the light is from the side. I've had to start on the necklace because the hair's in front of it. I was trying to finish the face in one day so I started early and worked feverishly till 4 a.m. I got to a good stopping place but it's not finished. Now I work somewhere else while this face dries enough to come back to it.