more black and white

so after my first art class, we got homework.  the assignment was to find a painting we liked, print a copy in black and white and then recreate it.

i went back to my favorite, as described before, charles dwyer, and found a painting i hadn't seen before.

here it is (from gallery m, the gallery in denver i love), bella's call:

isn't that just beautiful??

here is the black and white printed version on 8 1/2 by 11 paper (the lines i drew, which is a painting technique to get sizing and whatnot):

and then here is my painted version:

i quite like how it turned out.  i should try practicing some more.