Heidi's Red Chair

Here is is Heidi's acrylic painting inspired Paul a favorite Paul Klee. I like the warmer palette Heidi used. I think this is a beautiful pale yellow. Heidi thought I might call out the scale of various objects but I think that it's a pretty faithful rendition with a few minor exceptions in addition to the color. For instance, I like how she made the buckets cross over the line where the floor and the wall meet. I can see her giving the floor another coat to cover the grate more thoroughly. The reds could also be punched up a bit. Sometimes acrylic can take a few coats to get the intensity you want.  

I like the additional watering cans in Klee's picture. I think that Heidi made a good decision to take out the drain. I think it has too much importance in the picture as the path leading in from the left is bracketed by the cat on the table and the chair, framing the grated drain. The oddness of the composition, with the half a chair facing away from the scene, makes it intriguing.

I think that Heidi's painting is a successful interpretation of the Klee piece but to my eye, with more pleasing colors.

1. As an alternative, I thought that it might be interesting to turn the chair into the scene. It creates a different feel.

2. Notice the perspective of the legs of the table.

3. As I mentioned, I could see putting another watering can or two back in the scene but maybe staggering them slightly.

4. I might give the edge of the grass a little more rhythm.

Except for the more opaque floor and perhaps making the cat a little bigger,  I don't think that Heidi needs to change anything. It's a successful homage.