"Sea Nymphs" after Edward Henry Potthast

"Sea Nymphs" after Edward Henry Potthast
(4x4") - 201133
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We'll see how this one goes over. I feel as though there's something missing that the other nudes have. Much of the work is not as direct an application as I like, and I suppose there's also some lack of color depth. More over, I hate (with a passion) smearing of the paint. For the most part, the skin areas are OK. It's the rocky part of the painting that appears to have very indecisive - overworked strokes. Yick. And the hair is rather disjointed on the girls center and right. The hair of the girl on the left works OK for me. And just to be clear - the white stroke that appears in between the stomach and arm of the center girl is not an oversized breast. It's the stomach of the girl laying down : ). Hmmm what else (I'm in a self bashing mood this afternoon) - I don not at all like the burnt sienna color toward the bottom right. I did mix it with some ochre, but clearly not enough to look like anything other than a red blob. And I'm not sold on the water area. Fought with more vs. less detail. Smooth & flat vs. some variation - both in value and in stroke size and direction. I decided to keep it quite since the foreground is so noisy. And finally, the thing that bothers me about the hair is that the lightest parts really are too light.
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