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I'll have to get a better photo of this one; shooting at night with poor lighting is no good. I tried to digitally edit the colors back to a semblance of realistic, but I ended up with some strange artifacts.

Here's the second of my Bouguereau-copies started. Penciled on canvas. I put a couple coats of matte medium on this one in an attempt to level out the canvas texture so it wouldn't bug me as much.

I'm trying to get the hang of indicating leaves and foliage. I'm not sure I'm really getting it.. But that's why I'm doing this. And why I'm planning to do a substantial number of these.