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Values or tones.
Allan,
I think most of us would love to have this Danish beauty to paint. She is lovely.
I think you, as has been mentioned, have a lovely light touch with color. However your work suffers from a weak range of values. Squint at your photo reference and you will see what I mean. You have flattened out the tonalities, by not accurately rendering your values. You seem, except for the white to have all middle light tones, with some dark accents.
One of the most daunting tasks is to paint a back-lit head successfully. You have to paint it darker than your mind tells you to do. Since it is Summer, do some quick color studies of your daughter outside. Squint to see the values and open your eyes wide to see the color.
You have over emphasized, as Mike has pointed out the modeling of the nose. Squint again and see how much softer the nostrils are.
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