Done?

I cranked up some more contrast on this today - painting in darker washes in both the background and even on the lamp in area. I also played with temperature, cooling the background to help it recede and warming up the lamp. I am "baby-stepping" this painting, to say the least. Maybe someday it will be done. I love the way it looks on my monitor, unfortunately I have to do a little more tweaking to play with the contrasting values, so it matches this in person.  Unfortunately though, outside the window isn't as light in person, as it appears here.  :(   I'll have to see what I can do about that, because I love how it looks on the computer.  :)

Anyway, thank you for stopping by.  

I'm Still Working

Even though I haven't posted, I just wanted to prove that I've been working.  :)  This one is going quite slowly, as I tweak all those reflections and details. I'm also still working on the overall feeling I want this painting to have, so every time I put another wash over the background I have to go back and re-work some details.  No biggie . . . just time consuming.  

Thank you for taking a peek.