Thanks for the comments
As for putting the texturing with the coloring from the 2nd one, I tried something like that. It didn't come out all that well. When I tried to lighten it up with the textures in there, it made it look really odd and unnatural. With the darker tones, I thought it made it look wetter and more like oil on canvas, and that was the look I was going for.
I did print out a copy of the third one, trimmed off the black, matted it onto black construction paper, and framed it in a black and white 3 tier frame and it looks really amazing.
There was a Monet exhibit in the Bellagio while I was out there, but I was too stupid not to take the time to go in and see it. I think it was only $15 to see. I kept saying to myself, "I'm going to see that before I go. I'm going to see it before I go".. and then the time just sort of dissappeared and it was time to go and I hadn't gone to see the exhibit
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