The Girl in the Red Dress - Alena Kurajdova

I was having a cup of coffee with Melodi in Berkelouw's Paddington Bookshop and Cafe, enjoying a delicious lemon pie and browsing the classical paintings in a book Melodi found.. and There she was, the girl in red dress. She was just sitting in front of us,and reading a book, enjoying her time there as we were; She was reminding a very classical composition, as if she was coming into life from an Ingres work.
You know what happened next. We asked her if she would be interested in posing for me for a portrait.
A couple of days later she contacted us and she would be happy to pose for me.

We immediately started to work. I will add these paintings in short time, but as of now all I can offer is a picture taken with her while we were having a cup of coffee after a long session. We very having a hot debate over the compositions as she is also from the art world