[Dianne Gardner]

Alexandra,
I am planning to have this granddaughter and her sister come and pose for me in their costumes really soon. I will be doing as much studying as I can from the photography section of this forum. There is so much information here that its almost overwhelming but I hope I can glean enough to begin with to take some decent photographs. I have an older digital camera. I think they also are planning on doing a live sitting for me for at least a couple of hours. Jade sits really well and I used her in another open studio painting that I did. I can at least do some live studies to work from even if they don't sit long.

Michelle, I will post the reference photos to be critiqued. Thank you for that suggestion. I'm looking forward to this!

Alexandra, thank you for starting that thread. I will join you over there. I too am interested in the responses!

I am still going to take Ilaria's suggestion and finish this painting. I think I can make it work.

Thank you!

Dianne