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Postscript to Cheapskate Seeks Perfect Gift

In the end, I decided that I liked the first version of my painting better, though I also liked the windows of the second version. So I ended up combining them:

The colors are still off, and I liked the bricks in the other version, but something about this one feels more like a painting to me — maybe the fact that it’s not so heavily Photoshoppe, or maybe just roughness of the outlines, particularly for the chairs.