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This is one of the paintings that I did at the Robert Liberace workshop at the Southern Atelier in Sarasota, FL.
I originally had a strong highlight placed on the models head with the background lighter than her face.  Rob pointed out that if I lost the highlight and darkened the background the figure of the model would become the focus.  The adjustments took a few minutes and I was very surprised at how much stronger the painting was.

Lesson learned; simplify, simplify, simplify!