Juli in window

[Will Enns]

Peter,

I don't find your comments negative. You simply respond more strongly to one image than the other, and I am thankful for that. Also, I agree that the face seems overworked in the second, but most people don't seem to notice that. What to make of this?

I think one day I will paint the whole thing again and correct all the errors while creating some new ones. At least my errors are original.

Mike,

Square compositions do seem to resolve a good many problems for you and me, don't they?

That long blank wall troubled me, but how else do you compose for a round window set high in a wall? Your suggestion is the obvious solution, but would I think of it? I didn't get the chance - my wife framed the painting before I even had it finished. I had to peel it out of the frame to put finishing touches on the foliage, which I can now see is still not finished. I wish some clients would get that enthusiastic.

But your suggestion has merit. Here it is square. I've since added some foliage that encroaches on the window moulding. That gives it a little more dimension, and I've desaturated the flowers some. But I'm not about to take it out of the frame again to rescan it, no sirree.