[Jean Kelly]

I've worked much on Gypsy, been following my own Shepherd around and watching the light patterns on her fur. I feel that slowly I'm getting there. I darkened Nick's hands and they looked awful, yuk, need some help with this. With my "stand-in", there is a space that lets light through between dog and Chris, this light is picked up in areas on his hands. But they look dirty to me. What do you think?

I lightened the shadow in Nick's nasolabial fold and deepened the eyelid shadow on Chris, plus a lot of nitpicky stuff (beard, neck, hair).

I'll be adding another layer to the background to even out the color and add some low key interest.

This painting has had an effect on my son. He now wants to "clean up" his image. Maybe I'll do another one of him cleanshaven and styled!

Thanks for looking,
Jean