Thanks, Helga, for playing with the photo image of my first painting and coming up with such a fun alteration. I will try working with paint to achieve what you had in mind.

The second painting got a makeover yesterday during my studio session in the afternoon. Here is what I came up with for that one and I have some ideas for taking it to the next place. I needed to let the paint dry over night.

I think there are fish in the bottom third, right side of this painting. I am going to lighten it up a bit, darken the upper third. Play around with it more. I put the painted panel on top of some rubber tile on the roof of our back porch, i.e. the black and white rectangles around the edge.

I obviously borrowed from Chris Cozen with this painting that I put on top of a background I painted yesterday, which was already painted on top of another background. I see it turned counter-clockwise for the best view. What do you think?

Look what my camera lens found when I was sitting outside for dinner