Hi Mike - What a sharp eye for details!
Your advice on this painting has been tremendously helpful and has really improved it!
As far as the oils go, I'll probably give it a try on a little portrait sometime soon - but my daughter will have to wait! (It was because I had originally done one of her that I owed one to Michael - if I do one of Karen again now, we'd be uneven again!).
I actually switched from oils to acrylics a few years back because they were a lot more convenient to work with, with kids running around the house. But then I wasn't doing portraits and needing to get such subtle blending/transitions. So we'll see how it goes with the oils now that we're talking portraits.
Thanks again Mike!