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Hi Jerome,
I have looked at your figurative several times and I am maybe beginning to understand where you are heading.
I have some dislikes and some things that I like very much.
Since this is the critique section, here it comes.
I like very much how you painted his head, cap, right shoulder, arm and the background arias that borders to that part, and the mandolin.
What I would avoid is all the small details such as the figure at left side and the picture frame and vase in the window at right side.
The small person with the vine glass should have been painted much more summarized ( all in my opinion).
I think that there should be a harmony in the size of elements used in a painting.
Are you a musician? If you are you will know that one note relate to the other and patterns are repeated, with variations.
I am not one myself and this is only a way of telling by analogy.
When you began this painting I bet that you started with the mandolin player and later incorporated the smaller figures, right?
You painted the smaller figures because they were on the reference.
I think that the painting would have been better without all the small details. Only the musician and some different values behind him to suggest "wall, window and wife". Different structures like different instruments in the band.
Allan
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