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Clive, this is a great portrait! It has a perfect balance of color and composition. I love the way the warm colors in your son's skin contrast to the cool colors of the wall and chair. By the way, what colors did you use to arrive at the colors in the wall and picture frame? It is an interesting color that I don't see often. I love it!!
Your composition is a perfect combination of line and shape. I love the way just a small sliver of the table on the right keeps you in the painting and creates an open composition to the remainder of the room that we cannot see. Everything would be off it weren't there. Also the angle of the edge of the carpet at the bottom is great and adds a lot of interest and movement. The angle adds visual weight and sets everything else off of that angle and away from the bottom edge of the painting, which once again, if the rug's edge were not there, the rest of the painting would fall apart. It's all a perfect balance that you've achieved in a brilliant painting!!
Very nice work!
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