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Hi Linda,
I have to agree with Mike that this is a beautiful painting. To add to what he's already said about it, I think the color and brushwork in the tousled hair plays wonderfully against the russet background. I'm going to remember that combination.
It's really hard to to find fault with this captivating work, but after looking for a long time, I started to notice that the almost pyramidal area at the top of the cushion behind the subject, at the very left of the painting, seemed to be drawing my eye. The blue here is a higher value than the cushion in front of his shoulder. That and the fact that this area of the cushion continues a curve formed by the front of the shirt and the collar line may be what's pulling my gaze over there. It's a subtle thing, and I'm hesitant to mention it because of the artifacts introduced by photographing and digitization that you just brought up. I wish I had Photoshop so I could manipulate the area to see if it would make a difference.
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