Symbolic Portrait

I plan to make a portrait of my great aunt. She is my role model and an amazing person. She lives in New York City at the age of 97. She has a great humor always has a positive attitude. I am going to put New York City in the background and add bright colors as a symbol to a bright/positive attitude. My great great aunt always wears bright pink lipstick with blue eye liner so I am going to incorporate those colors into the painting. I may make a sunset in the background with blue, yellow, and pink. Also, she used to be a dancer and still goes to Alvin Ailey to watch the dancers so I may put Alvin Ailey some where in the painting or add dance shoes to it.