15-03-2016, 08:43 PM
This makes me think that the "second painter" perhaps tried to make it look more like the type of scene you describe. If you compare my outlines to the original image, you'll see that Blue as well as Red (i.e. the two animals in the water) have had specifically their telling attributes of a reptilian or aquatic nature obscured by heavy paint. The heavy painter made them look like mammals, while originally they weren't supposed to.
Blue looks almost exactly like Green, with a forked tail, pointy nose and slender build. Red looks a bit different, but he still has the forked "fish tail" and a ridged back. If I look at the outline, I see a water pool where three aquatic beings roam, and the yellow one (could be a lion) is spooked by one of them.
If the heavy painter was really trying to "correct" or "improve" the work, perhaps he was trying to make this scene more familiar by turning the fish-tailed pond dwellers into swimming or drowning mammals.
Blue looks almost exactly like Green, with a forked tail, pointy nose and slender build. Red looks a bit different, but he still has the forked "fish tail" and a ridged back. If I look at the outline, I see a water pool where three aquatic beings roam, and the yellow one (could be a lion) is spooked by one of them.
If the heavy painter was really trying to "correct" or "improve" the work, perhaps he was trying to make this scene more familiar by turning the fish-tailed pond dwellers into swimming or drowning mammals.