Ballerina Dressing

[Chuck Yokota]

Hi Bob,

I like this a lot, especially the way you captured the little girl's expression.

Since you don't want to make a double portrait, you can get away with more by putting in the value changes for the different planes of the face, while leaving the edges very soft and out of focus. That will be accepted more by the viewer as how we perceive what we are not looking at.

[Kimberly Dow]

I never would have attempted a painting from that photo - but I think what you did here is fantastic.