Coffee Roasting, Again

I'd painted Calvin releasing beans from the roaster onsite at the coffee plant. The canvas was pretty big, but not the size I'd been commissioned to paint. I couldn't bring the full 48 x 36 canvas into the plant, so I'm now painting the larger work using the earlier painting (hanging on the wall) as my source material.

This is a pretty new process for me -- creating new work from a painting -- and I'm finding it's simplifying the forms in the image and of course color choices are easier. The new painting is fully covered in paint, but there's a lot of adjusting to be done.

I was very happy with the smaller painting, but I think there are things that don't work as well in the larger size and there's a depth to the space in the smaller painting (maybe made entirely by the arc of the roaster top and vertical line that's not in the larger painting?) that I need to work on.