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Linda, I like your ideas; you see the painting more in the way that I do and they fit well with what I was trying to say. Which is not to diminish the validity of the other critiques; especially if this were a commissioned portrait I would have needed to focus much less on those roses and more on rendering a convincing, three-dimensional child. As I mentioned, I'm not going to make any changes now; I painted this five years ago and the little one is now almost eight. But I'll be posting another one for input here to see what reactions it gets. And then perhaps I should post one that I *think* is well done and fits all the proper portrait criteria and see how I fare with that. Thanks for your suggestions.
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