The idea for this oil painting came from looking at Renaissance portraits and religious paintings.  This is not a copy of any painting.  The look on this woman's face and her eyes looking to her left suggest something going on near by or like she wants to avoid answering a question.  In any event she is preoccupied.  Her face fills the picture area.  I kept looking at the another painting and then through drawing it over and over came up with this very round addaptation.  I imagine her to be a nun.