If You Think This Is Easy... Part II

Further with the self-flagellation:

So, faced with El Toro Blanco, Dos I decided to revisit the original image by tracing the key elements. Which left me with this:



I very much like the Thurberesque quality of the thing. Something along the lines of The Night the White Bull Fell on Father.

Regardless, it was inevitably followed by this:



Then, armed with what Dick Cheney might call a weapon of mass destruction (at least I have one)...



I came up with this. Because it is becoming plain to me that this painting is about the black, not the color.



So I just painted the black in, just to see...