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Your boy
I didn't read all of the post before I also adjusted your photo in Photoshop. Now, I see that somebody else has also done it. I hope it helps anyways.
I adjusted it using Levels and Selective Color. I also put two images on top of each other and erased the background out of one, so that I could adjust the colors/values on the background and face seperately.
I love this face. His smile is wonderful and the pose is very classical. The shadows fall all at the right places.
When you paint it I would be sure to keep adjusting your colors. Don't accept your scrap as the final color study. Bring mixtues of flake white and Cerulean Blue into the hightlights on the nose and bridge between eyes. Bring mixtures of Ivory Black and white into other parts of the face to cool down the temperature. Sap green is a great way to do the same thing. I would also deepen the value of the eye lashes and put some white with Ultramarine blue into the whites of the eyes.
Basically, if you can bring cools into the whites of the eyes and highlights on the face than it balances out a warm face.
Good luck. . . I would work from this scrap. I think it could be an amazing portrait!!
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