Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.