glad I left this pair for a few weeks as I decided, before I got much further in, to flip and repaint the image of mum, Mulga, as paired together both looking in from the same direction was simply odd looking. What's odd instead now is the clear difference in the light direction, but I think it can actually work compositionally, to make the point that they're two different images, rather than one image on two canvasses. We'll see though. And if it doesn't then they can just hang vertically or separately . . . however it goes though, I am going to enjoy getting to know the family resemblance here as I get more involved in looking and painting.
