Lady of Ladakh progress

While waiting for my other paintings to dry enough to continue with them I ended up starting yet another one today - I must be experiencing some sort of purging need to paint after years glued to my computer monitor! This I based on an image of an old Ladakh lady from India and her people, making her young instead. It sort of feels to me a bit like a Robert McGinnis western painting for some reason. These tribespeople resemble native Americans more than they do our traditional image of Indian natives.