===== From jaime@ctav.es: Nice idea, but the same as your other scene, and no so good. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: The wood frame is very bright -- does it have too high ambient values? I like your other image much better, this one seems cartoonish. ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: I definitely prefer the other picture: this one really suffers from is too simple textures. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: I don't know the original Magritte paining (although I know Magritte as a painter), but your entry seems rather uninspired and the rendering is very "flat". Also don't be ashamed to use a higher JPEG quality setting to minimize visible artifacts. ===== From arcana@sinbad.net: The major stumbling block with trying to adequately judge such an entry as this is that many of the judges, myself included, will have no foreknowledge of the artist or painting. Without knowing what the original image looked like, I cannot make a fair determination on your entry. If I have time (I'm sorely pressed right now), I'll do a web search before submitting my votes. Also, like many others, you've run into the same problem with the Brick pattern. It really is bad to use it for objects close to the camera. The grouting ends up having no depth.