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Originally Posted by Terri Ficenec
Thanks Cynthia - so glad you think it works! 
Thought the composition was a little risky starting out (those horizontals potentially leading off the right end of the canvas...) but hoped to counter that by keeping the strongest contrast/highest values at his face and hands, and pushing the values down, in the background. If I could have gotten away with making him left-handed instead of right, I'd have preferred the mirror composition so that the horizontals led into the painting rather than out!
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Terri,
It's interesting how horizontal direction is important to the way we see things. Evidently we all read paintings from left to right, compositionally. I'm not making that up! Rudolf Arnheim has postulated this in his book "Art and Visual Perception". I still prefer the original orientation, personally. But it should bode well for this painting when it is loved both backwards and forwards.
Garth