I'm ready to learn

[Kimberly Dow]

I wanted to mention that looking at her face on the monitor here - the side of the mouth on our left is turned down more in the painting than the photo.

Nice - keep going!

[Amy Otteson]

Thanks for all of the input - I agree with all that you have said. It is nice to have fresh eyes looking as you all know. I feel isolated painting by myself without having someone around who specializes in portraits.

Linda, I agree with the photo reference comments. I have been looking into getting a new digital camera that has zoom options better than what I have now. (Mine is one of the first models that came out some years back.) I'll read some in the reference photo and camera section and try some of the suggestiions on my next shoots. It seems that I wait for my kids to get back into school before I can really spend the time I need to on learning. But as I mentioned I'm ready to go now. Thanks for the nice comments too. They are always appreciated.