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Tony,
Beautiful portrait! As usual I admire the way you heighten the values towards the face (or I guess you could say lower them towards the rest of the body including the hands) to achieve a finely-tuned focus.
Her face is really interesting! I often see paintings of beautiful women that do not interest me, and I suspect it's the way they are painted, i.e. viewed by the artist. But you have put something in this that catches the viewer's attention. That one heavy-lidded eye is slightly, intriguingly, wierd, yet her other eye (in the shadows!) is alert. Her nose is crisply painted, assertive but not overworked. Her lips are softly mobile, about to speak or change expression. All this adds up to a unique face that is hard to forget. I think these nuances come through the brush straight from the artist's intuitive feelings about the subject.
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