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A great start with a difficult job.
Boy you are brave , attempting back lighting and foreshortening in one picture. The foreshortened part works well, your line of vision is high enough so you can see a good bit of her lap, so her legs do not look as they are coming out of her waist. The pose reads really well. I am working on a foreshortened pose and is has taken a year to work out all the wrinkles, so I know from personal experience JUST how difficult they are! Congratulations.
Allan had a good point about darkening the figure against the light. One thing I would do is to soften the lines especially in her face. The line from her cheek to her nose is too strong. I think you should soften the values on her nose and throat as well. Watch the sharp definitions on the inside of her elbows too.
Somewhere on this site I explain how I do my own gallery wraps. My work is large so I can show it with or without frames. You have to use a thicker stretcher though which is a lot cheaper than a frame.
I use Twin Brooks stretchers. I will get the URL later. They are sturdy, if not cheap, but reasonable and made exactly to size.
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