"looking for fruit" continued

I first got rid of the halo effect around the girl, ie i worked out the edges softening them, sharpening them as required, sorry no snaps of the result.

Picked it up again fairly recently and this is how it looks after a colour layer


........for some reason(think its to do with how dark the background wrt her face) the autofocus in my camera refused to capture her face when photographing the entire piece in one.
kept appearing as a vague featureless white patch



had to take closeups to get the colours properly






snap no2 is what the colour of her face actually is.....try and visualize it together
there also exists an amazing jewel-like quality to her which is not visible here
no three shows the correct colours of her shirt and her arms, the face is wrong

a much closer look at her face
I will be adding a few more layers to her. Im waiting for it to dry first
her nostrils, lips and eyes still need a little tweaking

the last ones a little distorted but the colours are correct

am pretty happy with the way the painting is turning out so far
wish there was a better way of showing you people how she glows!!