[Chris Saper]

Hi, Deladier,

Terrific likeness, right off the bat. Your source photo, I think,is simultaneously excellent and problematic.

Your source has good detail in both light and shadow, and I can see that you have stepped back a bit from the artificial darks in the shadow (if it were my portrait, I'd probably step back one-two more F-stops or so). But I think your photo is failing to give reasonable information with respect to color temperature, and you are the only one who can control this in your painting. It looks to me like you lighted your subject with a close incandescent or Tungsten light, (very warm in temperature); if this is the case, you would want to cool off the color temperatures inthe shadows. Given the proximity of the light source and the distinction fo the cast shadows, it would be much more difficult to convince your viewer that the light source is cool.

See ya tomorrow,