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Tim, thanks for posting the Fechin, it's lovely.
Chris, I disagree with you on the aspect of psychological focus here. When you expose the tummy you are essentially creating a painting of a "two-person relationship" instead of a traditional "it-all-leads-to-a-single-face" portrait. It's a conceptual (pun?) issue. I think it's appropriate to give that tummy visual weight.
Having said that, though, I don't like the vertical stripe, either. I think verticals are really strong compositional tools and I almost always want to see them fuzzed out, lightened, darkened, shortened, narrowed, or taken out altogether.
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