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Well this is just superb, Garth. Your composition (in all three dimensions) is just spot-on: beautifully balanced and creative in its use of contrast, rhythm, focus. It's hovering on the border of photorealism, but shows so well that you needn't go any farther to achieve the same impact. You haven't had to resort to smoothing out your, as Linda said, intelligent, painterly and quite joyful marks (did you sing a lot when you painted this?).
Your drawing is top-notch and, as usual, your ability to render shallow space, and roundedness to a figure is just so right. Your colours have worked out very well, and there's an intensity to the painting that is carried so well throughout the piece.
And the facial character and physiognomy is full of life and believable personality.
Very, very well done!!
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