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Hi Beth,
I like the simple pose and I like the way you put little stories into portraits.
About the source-photograph:
I would like to know wether you have a special reason why in the source-photograph the shadow-side of the face is so dark. Personally I would prefer some more light on the shadow-side of the face.
The source-photograph shows a dark background, while the painting shows a very light background. Maybe you could make a source-photograph in which the background is as light as you would like to paint it?
Why did you make the source-photograph in black and white? Personally I prefer colour-photographs.
It's hard to judge from the photograph of the painting because of the way it is photographed (The images seem to be distorted) but, is her head a bit too small, compared to her arms/ body when you compare it to the source-photograph? It's hard to judge wether you made mistakes in this.
For some reason the detail-photograph of the face has a watercolour-appearance (that's not necessarily a bad thing).
The background is VERY blue, it can work, but it's also possible to use a less bright blue, so the background stays in the back so to speak. The blue of the background now takes away something of the attention you would like to have on the psychology of the face.
Greetings,
Peter
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