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Three addendums
Beth,
A. The chair is wrong. The shape, the color, the material. Too informal. In one of my portraits, a young girl on a pink chair, I found that chair and painted it to repeat the pink in her dress and flower, also to provide a complemetary counterpoint to the green background. No detail, even a seemingly minor one should be left to chance. I sometime take weeks and weeks to get all the details right, do thumbnail sketches, look for props, so when I go to shoot I know what I am after. Usually it goes very smoothly.
B. Add a great deal more rouge to her cheeks than you think proper, they always wash out and when you go to do the painting both from life and the photo it somehow works.
C. When you go to paint her look up my 8 head formula in one of the threads, it will make her look less chubby, which I see she is not by the last photo.
Sincerely,
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