Jill

Technically nice, but, I think you washed out all her facial personality. Just IMHO.

Fair comment. This area is about experiments, technical experiements in my case.The technique was an attempt to produce 'flattened whispers', 'ghostly effects' on images - hence experimental. I'm more concerned with the chemical sculpture than actual image with a lot of my work, and this is a case in point.

It looks perfectly normal and very attractive as a thumbnail portrait but as you say in the full picture her facial features look a little strange, reminiscent of the look that a good waxwork of the real person might have.

On the basis of chemical sculpture I'd pronounce it a success

Thanks pentaxuser. I'll post a more extreme example of this type of chemical sculpture, with 'distressing', soon.