[Chris Saper]

Holly,

This is lovely!

I have very little to add to the comments already made - I would probably desaturate the yellows in the forehead a little. I think you have painted the subleties of temperature very well.

The only other thing is a Peggy Baumgaertner tip, regarding the blue of her eyes. When the iris color is painted mainly with blue ( like Ultramarine) pigment, the iris can seem to 'float' in front of the picture plane that contains the whites of the eyes. Peggy uses mainly Ivory black plus a little white ( which still is a cool bluish color) to create the feel of a blue eye.

I try to cut the saturation of light eyes as much as possible without losing the sense of their color, and leave the highest saturation and darkest value right underneath the highlight.

That being said, this portrait is ready for a frame, a nail and a hammer! Great job.