Lillian is a little girl from Alaska. I started with a photo were Lillian was standing next to her sister with her arm resting on the latter's leg. After doing some cropping in photo shop, I took the sister out and started to come up with the creating the room setting. You can read how this painting evolved on my World Market Portraits blog http://world-market-portraits.blogspot.com
Just click on Lillian - upper right column