Michelle,
That's one beautiful painting.
I suppose you posted it so that nardewells like myself could nitpick it, so here's a couple.
I believe the vase would be even more beautiful if you gave it some darker values on our left, the back side of the light. I don't think the light would wrap around it so totally.
At the top of the subject's left shoulder as the line travels up towards the neck... in your reference the shoulder is visible behind the necklace, higher on the neck. A small matter, and one you may have calculated, but it does give a slightly off-balance weight to the shoulder-neck relationship on that side.
Beautiful painting.
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Mike McCarty
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