Heidi,
I have always wondered why people (clients or others) are always reluctant to accept an expression on a face that is other than happy or smiling. Sad solemn or serious are always "taboo", like as if they were not part of the human reality. For me at least, the greatest portraits (in the truest sense of the word) in the history of art do not have smiles on them.
Bravo that you have made a piece because that is the way you wanted it to look! And the second one is fine as well. The technical level on both is, as usual, number one. Congratulations.
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Carlos
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