Getting There, still in progress on "M"

Yesterday, I painted over much of the face, correcting the color. I redid the eyes and made the mouth a little wider, and worked on the curls. It looks less angry now! 

Today I repainted the wall and its shadow, and fixed the lid of the maple syrup bottle. I also started putting in the metal work on the sides of the tray. I had to paint out and repaint this three times, because I wasn't really understanding the structure. I finally figured out that I needed to paint the little diamonds where the wires crossed first, so they would be evenly spaced and all on the same horizontal line. Once I did that, the pattern fell into place, and I'm pretty happy with it now. I still need to do the back side of the tray and its reflection. I also still need to finish painting the moss and give the macarons another pass. I'm thinking of adding another macaron to the right of the Mr. Peanut cup, because the left side of the painting has so much more going on, and the right side is so much emptier.

I won't be able to work on it tomorrow, but soon I'll make another pass over all the money and any remaining things that need to be tweaked.

Here is how it looks now:

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