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This is a beautiful character study, Sophie, but I'm wondering why you're using acrylics as an interim step before going to oils. Your drawing skills and sense of color come through impressively in this painting, but the inherent difficulty in blending skin tones and achieving other gradations - which is a hallmark of acrylics - seems to be operating here, especially on the forehead. If you simply went right to oils you wouldn't have that technical problem to surmount.
Personally I wouldn't want to go to the trouble of learning a whole new medium and mastering all of its quirks before switching to yet another one with its own set of peculiarities. And I think oil's peculiarities, if it has any, are much friendlier to the exigencies of portraits. Not that I'm prejudiced or anything! And I'd love to learn pastels; I've always admired them, so that's probably what's next for me.
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