Until a customer is happy, I don’t consider commissioned art work to be finished. However, I took a chance on this painting and signed it before the customer replied.
A lifelong friend helped me work out the finishing touches of this painting. We sat together with the latest photo of the painting, using her suggestions and my Photoshop (Junior version) skills to try some things. We were both very pleased. Look at this “map” we created; every place we made a change, I put in an arrow so I could follow it later. (Be ye not dismayed – this is a photo with blue arrows, not blue arrows on the actual painting.)
I set up my laptop by the easel and began. It is very incremental, and you may not be able to discern the changes. Just be polite, ‘K?
Basically, I added shadows to some lemons, added darker ones hidden in the leaves, and then took some of the hard clean edges off the furrows (that is the dirt/moss area between the rows, not the eleven between my eyebrows – thank you for your concern).
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Absolutely stunning painting, Jana. I would add a little more definition to the lemons on the trees to the right. The rest of the scene has such perfect definition, they still look like yellow blobs of paint. Could just be the photo, but the effect immediately cries out to me. Otherwise, it is perfection!
Thank you, Louise, for liking the painting and for your helpful suggestions. I will take them under advisement, but think it might be the poor photography.
I know! It’s like one of those “find the 14 differences between these two pictures” contest!
‘Cept there’s no prize at the end unless you are the commissioning customer.
Ah, but if you ARE the “commissioning customer” you win the Grand Prize!
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