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Thomasin,
I like the composition and the brushwork. To me the abstract background works because it has a texture that is consistent with beach hat and sun, but it could be a wall or sand or just texture. Your drawing does seem correct, but there are a few places where the way you have put in the color create a problem with respect to reading the form correctly. They are:
1) the shadow under the arm--it looks convex and thus does not follow the concave structure of the armpit
2) the far arm--the lack of upper edge on the bicep and the gravelly texture of the lower inside arm make this arm hard to read as a form. It's also unclear where it is in 3-D space.
3) the bluish shadow below the navel is ambiguous.
I think this work is charming in many ways. Not everyone would think to paint a middle-aged woman's body and you've done it in an interesting way.
Alex
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