I continued with this original image and tried bringing in "negative space" in the form of hands and boats. I like the strips of the portraits looking at each other.
I then decided to try painting the original copy, of the background in the left image, in pen/ink and watercolour. I had noticed in one of my collage images that the "grotto" image lined up with a waterfall image and decided to combine them in the watercolour. In the original collage with grotto image, the boat bed obscures the little Japanese stone lantern. Here in the watercolour, you can see the whole image juxtaposed with the bridge and waterfall image.
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