[Mike McCarty]

Allan,

I do enjoy seeing your work, you have a soft touch and a great sense of color.

If I could offer a couple of nitpicks ... in the first image - that area between the inside corner of her right eye down to the tip of her nose seems to be a bit over modeled, mostly with the cool temperature changes.

And the angle created by the bottom of her chin, as it proceeds from our right to our left and up, this line seems to go up too abruptly and may be hurting your likeness just a bit. The area between the mouth and the bottom of the chin may also be over modeled just a bit.

And one other nit, the darkest values of the painting, in our bottom left part of the painting, keep tugging me off in that direction.

This may have been by design, but, the eyes seem a bit bright and contrasty in both images.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment, I do appreciate those daughters.