More Brown Shadows

I worked a bit more on the dark shadow underneath the bar last night.  It's not done yet but I need to point out several things. First, look at the shadows on the left side of the dog's legs in the foreground.  See the diagonal line?  That's what happens when you use an overdye (my Wildflowers is very dark brown, black and charcoal) in basketweave.  I left this in when I saw it developing to give the illusion something is there, a shadow or a bar stool leg. Later on I clustered the charcoal area by switching to regular continental stitch.  You'll see that tomorrow.

I plan to use another stitch for the floorboards so I am basketweaving (with some side ventures into continental) the dark shadow under the bar out until the shadow stops. The same thread and stitch will be on the wooden siding under the window.  However, I will use a slanting stitch for the raised siding areas that separate the panels.  Clear as mud?

The other thing I wanted to mention is about photo formats.  I used the very same photo today as in the last blog entry ("Brown").  Today's version is a jpeg.  Yesterday's is a png photo.  I need a favor.  Could some folks look at each and tell me which photo is better before it is enlarged and after?  PNG files are bigger and take longer to upload.  I don't want to use them here unless the photo quality is a lot better than the more normal jpeg.  But I need your opinions as to what looks better on a variety of machines.

Thanks!

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