Meg

A beautiful portrait Margaret - I love the blue shadowing. Life would indeed be dull without art!!

A great piece of work Maureen. It's full of character and feeling.

I echo Michael's comments Maureen. Good work.

Really like the skin tones adopted here, yellow ochres and hints of blue, a really good portrait. A big yes from me.

Great pastel, Maureen, and very sensitive portrait.

This is a lovely portrait Maureen. The flesh tones work so well against the blue.

Nice work Maureen.

Such good colour Maureen. Super portrait!

Fabulous portrait Maureen

Really really good

Well worked Maureen

It is lovely Maureen, I also like the blue and often when I am doing a portrait (which isn't often), I generally introduce a dark green to the shadow areas, that works for me.

Brilliant skin tones, Maureen and I like the light hitting the wave of her hair and the rim of her glasses. Very good!

Thank you everyone - it's good to get the opinion of artists.

Exceptional Maureen. I like how you left quite a lot of the background showing through.

Smashing portrait Maureen.

This is beautiful Maureen, marvellous pastel work!

Great searching portrait