I tidied up the background with hints of vegetation with scattered brush. I used these, along with titanium white to soften up the dark patches. A yellow wash is applied to the whole painting after the Xuan has been thoroughly moistened. Yellow is a very difficult color to handle, but it think it would coordinate the color scheme and give that impression of filtered light. Dark green dots are placed along strategic branches to exaggerate the layering. I've also darkened some of the branches to appear more as a silhouette but leave others quite faint, to simulate the effect of squinting into bright light and the edges dissolve.
Finally I re-cropped the painting to give it more of vertical bias. I think this helped to rationalize the overly long lines of the person's back. Now I need to figure out a way to move the tree away from the center !
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