Just great stuff. I really feel this one is a personal best for you, Jimmie. You're raising the bar for yourself, which should be the priority for every artist. Those hands -
I agree with your corrections (or your wife's suggestions, hehe), and I appreciate your diligence in pushing a work to its fullest potential. And I'm glad to see the re-post. The quality is far better - you're right.
You know, you've amassed a pretty sweet 'folio of these contemporary portraits. This is a style and treatment that is all your own; I have not seen anything out there resembling it. Keep pushing it in the face of gallery directors - and believe me - some lucky SOB (who may actually have some foresight) will snap 'em up and sell them faster than you could imagine. None of us here will be the least bit surprised. And we can say, "we knew him when..."