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Fill 'Er Up!
O.K. Reaching in the toolbox and grasping another specialized implement generally available to a journeyman and above (Gosh, Steven, is this really necessary? I mean, it seemed so much easier to say the old way!), I've taken Steven's suggestion and made the glass half full.Looks like Pinot Noir to me. In the actual painting it works like a charm, giving dimensionality to the glass, and resolving the issue of light on the thumb. I'm not sure how apparent this will be in the scan. It also has a salutary effect on the composition, because it brings some of the color from the flowers over into the low chroma center of the painting. The other compositional effect is that it really helps complete the triangle formed by the cigarette, the subjects head, the flowers and the extended arm. With the wine showing in the glass, the eye ricochets around inside this triangle with only the occasional foray outside. That was not the case before I put it in. I think this is important because arrayed around/within this triangle are the subject and contemporary mementi mori. Well, I suppose any competent critic could take that statement apart, but it's my painting, so I get to say what I want about it.
It was a brilliant suggestion, Steven!
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