STUDY 2: Painted Study of a Broken Composition

My first attempt at painting the model: I painted the left side first, looking at the wooden model; then taping the edge of the left painting, painted the clay hands with translucent plastic on the right. I used acrylic so the paint would dry fast enough for me to put tape on the one side to get that straight edge between the two images. 

Now I'm wondering if that clean edge is too abrupt. it does look more like two paintings put next to each other, and doesn't necessarily read as having that much of a relationship with each other. Perhaps if there was some cross over between the two images, like loose pallet knife paint marks from one image interrupting the other. Or maybe if I painted a whole composition involving the wooden head and shoulders model, and then painted the clay hands over one third of the painting -- maybe taping parts of the original layer before painting the hands and then removing the tape to reveal glimpses of that original layer.