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Maria,
It looks as though you have achieved a lot in 2 hours. The proportions look very solid and convincing, and you have identified the areas of shadow, halftones, and light in a way that tells me you know what you are looking for!
The thing that really puzzles me is the earring! It leaves me guessing why you did not build up the light areas of the head any further, yet chose to put a very high value accent on the pearl earring. My instinct tells me that, if the earring catches that much light, I would expect to see much more light on the light side of the face, and some highlights in the hair.
Maybe you ran out of time and couldn't go any further, or maybe your paint was too thick on the light side of the face and you had trouble laying on a lighter value into all that wet paint?
There are a lot of really nice things about this study, so I would like to hear more about your process and some of the issues you dealt with while you were painting.
Alex
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