Thanks to those who sent in suggestions and comments after that last post! I don't know why they went to my FB page and not to this site (I will have to fix that)...but as a result, I didn't see them until after a few days.

In the meantime, I didn't think anyone was even following me and, impulsive as I am, I went and futzed with the painting before I saw your comments.

I have to hand it to you. You are very discerning...your suggestions were spot on! (I guess the problems were pretty glaring!) I did indeed take out that distracting black shape from the bottom right and I did add some green to the left side to balance the green that was on the right side. I added more interest to the somewhat blank space on the bottom left. And I painted over a whole lot more .....here is the finished piece....

It's installed and I'm thrilled that the new owner is extremely happy with it. She said it "gave her chills" and that she was "transformed by it." Music to my ears!

But there is a plot twist. The painting did NOT end up in the dining room as originally commissioned. In fact, almost nothing about the painting went as originally planned! But, I will save that story for another day.

In the end, the painting hangs in the client's bedroom, with her beautiful new French bed linens... happily ever after....