I went to Emma's FB page and asked the pro for feedback and, some subtle brushwork later, I think Olivia is much improved. I lightened up her left, intensified her right, and put a glaze of a slightly darker blue behind her shadow side to set it off, then carried a diagonal of it across to the other side above her head. I freshened up the orange bits of hair drifting out from her head to up the contrast, dragged some orange back into the blue background to make it feel like maybe it is still original substrate, and I think I'm done!
Suddenly she pops, and it's not just her face popping out of a uniformly pale (if interesting) background—now you can register her neck and shoulders as being a part of a whole figure, which is partly what was missing before, that sense of connection of head to body.
I'm so much happier with this, all for a tiny smidgen of paint and 15 minutes of consideration and slight alteration. A great lesson—thank you, #EmmaPetitt!
"Olivia, Take Two"
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