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Chuck, you've captured an alert and lively expression on this adorable little girl. I especially like the intelligence in her eyes.
I'm going to address two aspects of your painting. The first is proportion. Unless there is something highly unusual about her facial proportions, her eyes should be approximately halfway between the top of her head and the bottom of her chin. I am assuming you painted this girl from a photo since it would be pretty much imposible to get her to sit still. Did you take the photo from a point above her? Often the distortion makes the top of the head much larger than it really is.
The other issue is, I think, much more significant and not as easy to address. It has to do with the lack of a unified color in the space around the figure. You have used a darker shade of pink for the skin shadow, a darker shade of blue for the dress shadow, etc. The background is greyish-green. None of it holds together. Furthermore the figure seems cut out and not rounded because it is disassociated from the background. There is a thread in this forum on backgrounds, under "color theory" that might help somewhat.
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