Using a similar process as previously addressed on bricks, I have added light and darker concrete colors on the stoop on which these 2 sit. I've now got the "big picture" complete and can begin a critical review process to determine 'tweaks' needed here and there.

(c) image copyright ... Remember that I was by circumstances painting this piece on a round table with a smaller diameter than the width of this piece??? That means I couldn't ( as I painted) see both brick walls at the same time. NOW...The first thing I can see when I get this laid out completely flat is that the brick values on either side of the door would better serve the central image if a little darker. I even think a more brown... slightly muddier look might be good. I think they look fine as walls alone.. but they aren't there to be the image of note.. they are there to frame the young girls... so a darker value would keep pushing your eye inward to the center where the young girls rest.