Pentimento Part 2

So how do you create a (modern day) Pentimento painting you ask?  It's not as easy as  it sounds. A friend of mine referred to it as "Painting with numbers."  If only.  What one does not see on first impression of a photograph is  that beyond the colors, there is an infinite number of shades. For example, when painting a photograph I have of Flamingos (one of the most popular requested works),  I use 7 shades of peach and even more pinks and oranges. There are  many shades of green,  yellows, browns, etc.  As painter I start to look at the image in a micro capacity, almost pixel by pixel.

One of the obvious feature of one my Pentimento paintings is that every painting of the same photograph is unique. I realized early in this process not to get upset over the differences. These distinctions can be attributed to different paints, different lighting, my mood, to name a few.  2 of the more popular requests are for the picture of an old wooden house (The Haints) and the "Pond of Flamigos." I have done dozens of other photographs, but those 2 are requested the most offen. And I do not have a clue why. 

The image on the left is the original Photograph of "The Haints", the image on the right is the Pentimento I painted  of that photograph (the contrast on the photograph of the painting is off making it look more washed out than it actually is)