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I enjoyed how this painting came out.   I just recently began painting again with watercolors so I was a little rusty.    I wanted it to have kind of a fantasy quality about it.   The face needed to blend into the background of the cape and get lost.   The photo color under the hood was black  but,  I chose to lighten it up a bit.  I rarely use black as a hue in and of itself.  I use a mixture of alizarin crimson, sap green and ultramarine blue if I want a dark color that resembles black.   I lightened up the face to warm up the painting a bit.   The background color works well with the skin tones of the face.