Yin-Yang

[Ant Carlos]

Yes, composition is always interesting.
Maybe with your artistic license you could incline the hat a bit so it can be shown - you can play with it even more than I did, roughly, in these images.
As for the yin-yang symbol, there is something mystical in the eyes of the model as she seems to be looking at something that is not real. You can use that at your service too, and suggest the yin-yang in the background, distorted or with some perspective.
That's what came up into my mind regarding this work.

Good luck. Interesting job you have here. I look forward to see how you will work it out.

Kind regards,

Ant

[Mike McCarty]

It's obvious that this group enjoys a challenge.

I think yours is a reasonable approach. The key would be the tone subtlty of the background image.

Personally I don't like the way the sculpture has taken liberties with the symbol. It looks fine in the restaurant setting, but I think if I were to include it I would keep it as simple as possible.

[Ant Carlos]

I agree about the sculpture. A simpler way to represent the symbol would be better, especially for the background.
With your idea, I played a bit more with the image. I am not good at these digital editing, so my edges are really rough.
I am enjoying this anyway. I think I am sometimes too lonely of an artist, inside these four walls in the middle of something called Brazil.

Cheers,

Ant

[Richard Monro]

Mike,
I think Ant is on to something here. I would tone down the light value of the YY symbol a little more to push it more subtly into the backround. By the way if you haven't visited Ant's web site you should do so. Ant is doing some incredible work.

Ant
Where in the interior are you? I traveled 400 miles up the Amazon and was stunned by the beauty of the country.

[Ant Carlos]

Hi Richard,
Thank you. Well I'm in the the South-East of Brazil, Minas Gerais State. Fairly away from the Amazon (and the coast too).
Brazil is large, you know, beauty everywhere. We have rain forests around, that if you went there you'd feel like if you were in the Amazon, I think.

Best regards from this sunny, green Country

Ant