Practice

Yesterday's efforts were based on a painting by Ricardo Sanz of a woman in a green gown seated on a couch with a dark background.

In the image on the left, I was trying to do the couch and her gown in vivd/more intense colors while keeping the background more pastel (a reversal of the painter's intention).  In the right image, I was trying to emulate a sense of the painting, aligning with the artist, using Japanese watercolors.  

In displaying them next to each other--I find them intriguing though very different while you can tell they are meant to represent the same person.  I like the color reversal in the first image while I like the face much better in the second (of course the latter is due to the tools used).