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Bari Marsh

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Marjorie is right Yvette take away the original and assess your painting as a painting.. If you are looking for a photographic image keep your head still and flick your eyes back and too from one picture to the other you will see microscopic differences in the images,  not recommended you could turn into a brick counter..🤣

Sylvia Evans

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I think it has worked well Yvette and your friend will be delighted with it , as Marjorie says it’s not a photograph and it’s livelier than a photograph.   I also enjoy doing animal portraits some work better than others but I try to get the essence of the animal not an exact reproduction. 

Alan Bickley

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A very good result indeed, you’ve captured something of this chaps character, which is what any portrait is about, be it animals or humans.

Yvette Hutton

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Thank you all for your comments!   It's been great to be able to share my work and get some great constructive feedback!    I AM DONE! :-)  It is signed now and that's it.   
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Tony Auffret

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This final version has really caught a cheeky expression that I don't see in the earlier posts.  Well done.

Denise Cat

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I think you have done a smashing painting, lovely little dog.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Think you'd done well here - a similar approach to one I took with my landlord's dog (thick paint, observing her less amiable side).  We run a risk of sentimentalizing doggy pics - of course we do, many of us are just hopelessly goopy about them - but they deserve an objective look and not a romanticized one, and I think you've caught that.  
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