Did this for Took me a couple of tries to get an idea I could work with as a portrait. I kept looking at her smashing hat and wanting to set up a tea party on top of there or something. this was about 2 hours work once I sat down to do it, there are the obvious photograph layers involved but also quite a bit of action work and some hand painting to work out blending and shadowing. It is actually really hard to do that much and make it look like you haven't done anything which is what I was striving for.

I am gonna send this on over as an entry for challenge 2 level 3 intermediate. I still have a ways to go but I think I have the basics down.

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to make life a little simpler all clubs within my journal have permission to display my deviations