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Mary, such a cute baby! Lucky you!
The main problem for me here is that you've changed the color of his shirt and that makes a radical difference in what colors are reflecting up into the face. That orange on the left side of his shirt bounces up to his jaw, nose and earlobe. Strong sunlight has an amazing capacity to reflect colors from one surface up to other surfaces. Paying attention to this fact in a painting is one of the main charms of outdoor light.
I can guess that you just didn't want all that bright orange in your painting. Instead of making such a radical change from orange to white, I'd experiment first by reducing the chroma of the orange shirt, either by adding blue or purple or by adding some kind of grey, depending on your own theory of color. Personally, I see purple everywhere when I paint a "sunlight" painting, but I'll admit that it's maybe just a quirk of mine.
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