Re-touching the tree and madonna

I was tweaking the painting with the colored pencils, and was able to save the baby a bit. I think I will hit it again with the acrylics and see if I can fix it.































These came in backwards, somehow. The tree on the right is with acrylics only before I tried mixing in the colored pencils. I have been looking at the oil pastel pencils, but havent made the $$plunge yet. But it did help wake up and give more definition and shading to the bark and the grass and the leaf masses too. I think it was an improvement.

Two "in progress"

I did get a chance to do some more painting in this heat. Not much else to do, (finished the books I had from the library already.)
I kind of like how the first, the Madonna is turning out, but the poor child is a Potato Head. I will look at this, and try to figure out what I can do to save him. The Madonna wasn't too bad though (as long as you dont look at her lobster hand....)

The tree looks much better in person; here is looks so blurry. I plan to try and put detail on with either colored pencils or paint pen. Will try pencils first to be a bit more subtle with it. If it is an improvement, I will post it again.