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I like it Louise. Full of vitality , little details taking us around and wonderful colours.

Whatever you have done - it has worked in spades. Fantastic glowing light and lots of movement. I am taken aback how you manage to re-work watercolour and still keep it fresh. I would end up with mud. Great addition to the growing gallery of superb paintings.

You really have mastered this most dificult of mediums - another duper picture

No damage showing, a great painting

Nothing wrong with it before, but I do like this one more. Really like your leafy foreground designs in a lot of your paintings. They sort of remind me of a vintage print/wallpaper pattern.

Thank you all! I appreciate the kind words though I'm disapointed to be on page 4 already after only a few hours! I wish people would only post 1 or if they really must, then 2 at a time. That way we might actually look at each painting. So many from the same artist and I just skim through and don't look properly. I fear that it's a lost cause:)

I do prefer this too, Louise, although there wasn't exactly anything wrong with the previous version. But I am a color fiend, and I really like the jewel glow of this version.

Thanks Seok. I felt that the first version was a little dull. It was just OK, but this one I think is an improvement. It was risky but you know how it is when you feel that a painting just isn't right :)

Louise, the risk you took paid off handsomely. I too like the strong colours of this and the whites against those strong colours are striking.

Well Louise I like this one and you do what I do ,If a painting doesn't quite feel right to me then I must change it, I have had time to look at my paintings and I have two that I want to Change, thats not to say the rest are wonderful just that I know what to do with these two : ) I agree that the most looked at gallery choices seem a little odd lately with paintings posted months previously turning up , I do hope 'they' get on top of it quickly as it is losing its integrity, we may be an odd lot but we aren't daft. Thanks for your best wishes Louise , I am back painting but still on lots of painkillers, Hope to post one soon.

Odd lot? Speak for yourself William :) Seriously though, thanks, best wishes and looking forward to seeing a posting of yours soon.

Louise, I know all about re-worked paintings as you know from the saga with heather picture I did ages and ages ago!!!Lol! In the end it was much improved. I didn't think there was anything wrong with your original, but this is brilliant. I love the dark tones and the broken, textured white.

It's a stronger painting, I think - you have greater contrasts of tone and colour. It works very well.

By the way, I agree with you about these multiple postings, and suspect, with William, that some are making a return trip - I hope this will resolve itself in future, but the same is true on other sites: there's little point, for instance, in posting on Affordable British Art, unless you've bought the premium package and can add unlimited pictures to your gallery - I've tried rotating mine, but they disappear in a matter of minutes! Maybe it matters less on this non-commercial site, but you could wish people would be a bit more discriminating - it is NOT necessary, or helpful, to post every painting you produced in the last 5 years in one fell swoop: and I wonder why some do.

I do prefer this too Louise, beautfiful painting

Thanks Fiona, I remember the heather well. Infact whenever I see heather, not that there's alot growing in Manchester, but I do have some in my garden, I think "heather for Fiona" :) Strange but true :)

Thanks Robert and Petra. I agree that this one is a stronger painting. The other one looked a bit shakey, not as confident. Now I'm happier, well as happy as I can be! I'm never totally satisfied with any of my pictures. I always find faults which my eyes are drawn to despite me trying hard not to notice, Are we all too self critical?

It's what keeps us going, though, isn't it? The do-better-next-time phenomenon - and though it's frustrating, it's probably better than thinking we're just about as good as it gets.... Not a problem I have, be it said.....

Another stunner Louise, and it takes courage to return to a painting you're not happy with. Well done!

It's beautiful, strong and soothing. Well done Louise!

Thanks Lesley and Satu!