Commenting about my own work

I'm been thinking lately on how it's sounds when I'm commenting on my own work, and how I read other artists comments about their own work. You know, I post a new painting and then I hesitate to write what I feel about it. Not that I don't know what I would like to say about it, but I hesitate because I do not know how it will sound to others or 'read'. Often this result in that I do not comment that much about my paintings at all.

An example:  if I say I don't know about this one or I don't like it I feel like I'm asking to be contradicted with What are you talking about, it's lovely. You know what I mean. This doesn't happen too often though, as I simply do not post paintings I am not at least somewhat happy with. If I'm not satisfied I either rework it until I am or I simply paint over it.
Then you have the opposite. When I have a painting that I am really happy with, should I go straight out and say it? I am so proud of this one. This one turned out great, etc. For some reason I feel like others would think then Who does she think she is? It's nice, but not THAT great…

My dilemma here is that I am not insecure about my work or what people would think about it (there will always be people who either hate/don't like or love/like what any artists do, that just comes down to personal tastes), but I am insecure about how I write about my work. I do not want to sound like I am begging for compliments, but I also don't want to sound like I think that there could be no improvements to my work. I do not know if I make any sense right now. That's why I often use simple phrases like I'm happy with this one. This one turned out rather well. They sound quite neutral, but now I have started thinking that they also sound quite boring, like I am not that interested in my own work.

So, what to do about that?

Maybe a solution would be to comment on the good and the 'bad'… Lets try it on my latest painting:

This is Pearly. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 30x30cm. He/she is a Boreal owl. This owl is called pearl-owl in Swedish, and that is how I chose the name Pearly. Reference picture with kind permission from AlaskanStock.deviantart.com.

I am happy with how it turned out. It took me much longer to finish than I had anticipated as I got lost in all the details on the face though. I like the background, and I think it shows of the bird pretty well. The branches could have do with some more work, but as they are not the main focus of this painting I left them like that. I'm proud of the head, I think that I captured the intent stare of the bird quite well. The breast feathers looks a little more like fur than feathers and I could have painted that part differently. The back feathers turned out ok. The face was my focal point, and thats why it got the most work.

Now I need to go and finish my other owl painting!