Back to Chardin (French painter 18th century)

I have gone back to a painting which I had started 3 years ago and never finished as I was not happy with the fruits. Having spoken with Julie Ford Oliver about the virtues of copying the Old Masters I decided to finish the Chardin painting call "Seville Orange,Silver goblet,Apples,Pear and two Bottles, 1750" and there it is my second painting on my blog!  It seems to me that this kind of work needs to be worked the same way as it was done, I mean by that it has to be done layer by layer and time to dry in between. Retouching it made me aware that I always put to much medium and maybe this explains why my brush marks seems always to disappear...