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Sorry to say it, Ngaire, but personally, I wouldn't paint from these photos. The biggest issue I see is that the light is very frontal -- was the flash turned on? If you've read through the photography threads you've probably seen many artists suggest that the first step is to turn the flash off and pose the model near a window so there's natural light coming from slightly off to one side. The lighting in these photos has also given you oddly pink coloring to the skintones too.
The second issue I have with these photos is that you can't see the model's face.
And finally the angles of the limbs seem very awkward to me. It reminds me a bit of Picasso's blue man with a guitar, which you may love, but isn't the direction I'd go in for a traditional portrait.
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