Holiday season revised

I changed the background color, thanks to Thomas showing me how the REAL still life painting should be. My is far away from it still, but I think it is a much better version from my previous post. Happy Holiday everyone!!

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Comment by Xiao Li on December 12, 2015 at 20:00: Thank you Charles for all your helps!!

Comment by Charles Post on December 12, 2015 at 17:55: I like what you did with the background. Has a classical old masters' feel. BTW, thanks your query about Photoshop as it got me working with it tonight and I have learned a great deal about the brush and palette features. That led to open a couple of photos of old paintings and rework the colors and values on screen. Will apply those changes to the actual painting soon.

Comment by Xiao Li on December 6, 2015 at 15:28: Thank you Laurena and Lawrence for your kind words and encouragements!! Drawing problem seems a repeating thing for my paintings. Sometimes I am just too eager to put the color down without carefully lay down the basics or the drawing at the beginning is okay but during the process of adding colors the shape is missed up. Anyways, thank you for pointing it out, and I will see what I can do to correct it.

Comment by Lawrence Easton on December 5, 2015 at 15:53: Really good Xiao Li. I hope you don't mind me saying, but I see a couple of drawing issues (lines, shapes, angles) with the wine glass (mainly the base) and the bottle on the right and its label. But wow, colours, lighting, composition, translucency, reflections, mood ... are spectacular! Well done!

Comment by Laurena Beirnes on December 5, 2015 at 8:30: Nice! I had to go back and look for the first painting as I had passed by it, but your new background is fantastic! What a difference!

Comment by Xiao Li on December 4, 2015 at 14:56: Thank you Thomas. You are the one give me the idea. Thank you.

Comment by Thomas wezwick on December 4, 2015 at 7:22: WOW........There is a feeling of space and air................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Great Changes...!!