About a year ago, when I was first perfecting my hobby, I used an image from John Durant's website http://johndurant.home.att.net/) and passed the resulting watercolor back to him. John liked it so much, that he sent me one of his music CDs. Anyway, I probably perverted the image this time; just can't put my finger on it, but I'm still not happy with the brush strokes. Maybe the thickness of the stroke is getting to me. Anyway, here is my next step. I promise that I won't quit, but it is taking longer to create the resulting rendering then is should have (a little less than an hour; mainly because I'm still tweaking). If any of you have good eyes for oil, please tell me what I'm not seeing or doing. I believe that once I have my process down, I can do an oil in around 15 minutes. The default resolution image can be found here: http://home.att.net/~lylejk3/The_Troubadour.htm