Sunflower Joyful Portrait

The subject is the woman in the attached reference photo. Recreate her exact facial identity from its features - the same hairline, hairstyle, volume and texture, brow shape, eye shape and spacing, nose structure, lip shape, jawline and cheek structure, skin tone, and natural facial proportions - so she is unmistakably the same person even inside the painted style, her features kept beautiful and their true shape unchanged, her own hair from the reference kept exactly as it is with no colour or cut change. The reference photo's own lighting, background and clothing are entirely discarded; her face is lit only by this picture's own light.

MEDIUM: a soft painted illustration in gouache with flat matte colour and soft edges, semi-realistic, not a photograph - yet every real feature of her face is kept recognisable and true, painted with care, never cartooned, never anime, never doll-like, the eyes their real size. The floating motifs and the colour wash fill the background to every edge and drift around her but never cross her face, hair line or shoulders.

LEMON SUNFLOWERS. BACKGROUND: a warm lemon-yellow bokeh wash with small sunflower heads and tiny bees floating around her. HAIR AND HEADPIECE: her own hair worn loose, a yellow gingham headscarf tied with a knot on top of her head. OUTFIT: a white eyelet-cotton blouse with short puff sleeves and a scalloped neckline. POSE: chest-up, head tilted to her right, her right hand holding a single sunflower by its stem at her shoulder with five separate countable fingers, her left hand out of frame. The sunflower is taller than she expected: her eyes crease at the viewer in a closed-mouth laugh, brows high, mouth in a wide closed smile. Soft frontal light keys her face and fills both eyes with a clear catchlight, while the wash and the sunflowers stay gentler than her lit skin. Palette: lemon, sunflower gold, white, bee black. The expression is natural and human even in paint: the eyes and mouth agreeing on one held feeling, natural micro-asymmetry kept, never exaggerated, never a posed grin. Exactly one person in the picture and no one else.

Vertical 9:16 picture built for Instagram: the face largest, sharpest and best-lit, the colour world readable in one second at phone size. No readable text anywhere - no words, no letters, no numbers, no logos, no brands.