"The Queen" Commission

The Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner has asked me to create a portrait of the Queen for one of the walls of his office in the middle of Warwick.  The brief was to paint the Queen as she looks now, wearing informal clothes (no royal regalia) with two added elements.  The first is to have a reference to Warwickshire somewhere on the painting and the second, rather less important element, was to have a small Boeing 747-400 as a reminder of the previous career of the Commissioner as a pilot.  

Having picked an image to work with, I drew the Queen in pencil onto the prepared canvas, which is 60x85cm in size.  I wanted to have a blurred background to represent all the activity surrounding the Queen in her daily life, while she is at the calm, unruffled centre.