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Wow. A much more personal, interesting and arresting portrait of your son than the previous posting. The difference between controlling and manipulating the painting instead of the other way around. I think you have a very dynamic painting going here. The biggest problem is the transition between the lit surface and the shadow on the face. He isn't rounding out. The side of his face moving from his nose to the side of his head has a nice diminutional feeling, but on the other side, going toward the shadow, it is initially too light, than jumps to a mid value, the red. Go back to the rounding out stage. Re wet the shadow on the side of his face, and work the terminator edge. The (our) right side of his face will be a value between the red of his cheek, and the lighter area next to his nose. and it will be a light value (massing), but not as light as the skin on the other side of his face. The area next to his nose and his cheek also are a little too light, and need to transition to the shadow, to round out.
There are very small additional things I could say, but if you can work out that shadow to light transition, you could have a competition piece.
Peggy
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