I'll start this out by saying that I absolutely love this. I think that in comparison to some of your other work, it's definitely more mellow and might fade into the background, but I personally prefer it because of its simplicity.

I'm just going to say a few things because I feel like the other critiques have pretty much said most of what there is to day. The colors are perfect. The contrast between her skin & hair against her other features gives it a lot more power (I don't know if that's necessarily the right word but yeah, power.) I love her expression and the way you outlined her body using little drips of color. It's subtle but beautiful. I agree that the hair at the top seems a little out of place. It's blotchy while the rest of your lines are intricate and purposeful, and it takes away from the otherwise smooth, flowing aspect of the painting. Despite that, I really just think that as a whole, you've done it again, and created a beautiful work of art.

While I say that, although I and probably about everyone else on the site really admire your technique and style, I would love to see you branch out more and try different techniques. I sound kind of like a snooty professional art teacher when I say that and since I'm actually just and amateur 18 year old photographer I kind of feel weird about giving you that kind of advice. But, as just a viewer, I feel like my opinion is worth something. And I know we all have our own styles, and I would really encourage you to stick to yours because it is amazing and I've never seen anything like it my life, but again, when I look at your gallery I sometimes feel like I'm just viewing the same painting over and over again. And don't get me wrong, I would be fine with that because I think you are an amazing artist, but I just feel like you should push yourself out of your comfort zone and try new subjects and mediums. I'm sorry if you've heard this before and I'm just being redundant, but just in case, this is my opinion.

And that's all. I love this I really do. I think it stands out in your gallery. Absolutely beautiful and one of my favorites. I hope you appreciate this because I honestly don't really know how to write these, but I think it mostly just matters that I get my feelings about your work out regardless of my familiarity with the technical part of art.

Thanks for reading this! The end.

There is a certain quality to your work which has no doubt left its impact on me since I first caught sight of it. There is a neutrality juxtaposed with sheer aggression that you show through various means in your images be it physical exertion or aesthetics I find it always present and this image is no different.

You play with the image of intimacy I feel but in a rather sinister tone as the medium dictates itself in a certain manner but your approach leaves it hanging in limbo. I find the image of the feminine very cliché it has been associated with beauty for centuries and often with innocence as the major factor playing but so has the image of a seductress, a vixen or scarlet and I long to see some unique images even if they do touch upon old topics. Still I believe you've found yourself a very comfortable niche which is good we all should have them but I also believe as an artist one should never restrict themselves to comfort, personally I find the height of a challenge to be more interesting be it through medium, topic, or just being different for a change.

On to the image, I feel the visual to say more than what you intended on saying, she is beautiful, her lips curled up anticipating an embrace maybe, but the lone visible eye is dark and deadly. A white rose though a symbol of peace still does harness the ability to prick your skin with its thorns. Perhaps the image says that, that this woman is more than what meets the eye. Even the use of the darker blue near her eye bringing focus to it is almost like a smudge, it calls for other explanations of the visual.

There can be various interpretations of this image but as an enthusiast myself I try to focus on more than just the title and what the artist wanted to say and rather what the image has said. The visual denies the image its purity through the technique which has become very violent, there is a sway in the air that is graceful to begin with but as you dig deeper into the expression it says more. Whenever we paint or draw there are elements that we unconsciously add to our images because art is pure and any attempt at 'creating' art through a systematic means leaves that purity violated by our mind because we add and subtract imagining the piece as it 'should' be. You've accomplished that here, I find her expression slightly different from your other pieces, inviting yet there is a price.

I'll have to say kudos on the technique which is absolutely delicious and the drippings add to the delight. There is an amount of amazing control here both in the selection and application of color and the movement on the surface. But the movement also says that perhaps you would like to go wild and are restricting yourself, I see that from the top of her head the hair has been forced into position. I believe you have held yourself back on this one, seeing from some of your previous work I appreciate this approach, subtlety calls for a heightened experience I believe because it has you asking more than perhaps what was intended. I also find that the restricted color palette allows for more interpretations of the work.

Final thought: She is human to touch and feel apt usage of the liquid has brought her into a tangible existence but the truth is covered in this velvet fog she is inhuman from the color of her skin to the color of her hair, from the sinister glare in her eye she wishes the world to burn yet her image calls for an embrace. Yes she is a ghost one that could easily send chills down your spine if she so pleased.