Golden Berries (Posterized) for Painting

Golden Berries (Posterized) for Painting, a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

I am planning to start another oil bar painting this week. I want to do another smaller painting (8 x 10) of branches, this time with berries. Tonight I found the photo I will use as a reference. Back in October of 2009, I took a photo of golden berries and posterized it. I really like it, but the resolution is very low and it will only print a very small copy. So I played around with it in Painter, trying to increase the resolution with posterizing, and when I had done all that I could, I cropped it to get a composition that would work in an 8 x 10 inch format. And here it is.