[Garth Herrick]

Richard,

In general this strikes me as an interesting and dynamic image. It does not appear to fit well physically with the frame,- there's a gap at the bottom and very bad cast shadow. Professionally, here you should just photograph the painting itself, and crop out all the distracting background. Now I am curious if that's a Velaquez copy on the wall in the background; but you just want a critique on your painting!

You obviously have some mastery of painting. The flesh tones may be a little hot and high in chroma. Please give us a better view of this so we can give it a fair critique.

Garth