Birds of a feather - fast fixes
You find something that's a little off but you still like it. Can it be fixed? A big acrylic painting of three birds catches my eye in a Bali market stall. It's a stereotypical painting that is generally interesting and balanced. The vendors try to talk me into "something more expensive and worthwhile." No thanks. This is the one for me. We negotiate $10 for the 26"X36" painting. One head is disappearing into the background trees. And the central intersection of branches, tails, and beaks is visually confusing. Those are easily reworked with a handful of acrylic markers. To match the yellow added to the neck of the back bird, I paint a touch of yellow on the necks of the 2 foreground birds. Immediately the heads stand out against the background. I also reshape the black-and-white tail and the brown body of the background bird. The branches get a light coat of green to fade into the background. The subtle touches make sense of what I'm seeing. Wasn't