First of three.

[Matthew Severson]

I have no right to critique on anything, but I can praise! I love the blue tint- making the painting dream like. The flowers are rendered so delicately, how do you do it?!

[Allan Rahbek]

Thanks Matthew,

I appreciate your comment. Don

[Allan Rahbek]

This is another version.

Allan

[Mike McCarty]

Allan,

I do enjoy seeing your work, you have a soft touch and a great sense of color.

If I could offer a couple of nitpicks ... in the first image - that area between the inside corner of her right eye down to the tip of her nose seems to be a bit over modeled, mostly with the cool temperature changes.

And the angle created by the bottom of her chin, as it proceeds from our right to our left and up, this line seems to go up too abruptly and may be hurting your likeness just a bit. The area between the mouth and the bottom of the chin may also be over modeled just a bit.

And one other nit, the darkest values of the painting, in our bottom left part of the painting, keep tugging me off in that direction.

This may have been by design, but, the eyes seem a bit bright and contrasty in both images.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment, I do appreciate those daughters.

[Allan Rahbek]

Thank you Mike for the comments.

I have replaced the photos of the paintings with better copies. Both were taken outside in full sunlight and I can not tell what I did different, but I put a gray scale at the side of the paintings so I could chek the temperature on the monitor. Now I believe that they are pretty close.

I have noted your "nitpicks" and will act on them, thanks again.

Allan