Manet Week: "A Bar..." in Process

This morning's earlier post is heavy, so here's a bit of lightness.

I need to photograph this in the evening light, actually, and do some more futzing, but this is the general set up for my third Toys Recreate Paintings (TRP) project, due tomorrow:
Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere":

My intention is to use stuff I already have to interpret the works, not to get everything I need (I easily could, at the thrift store where I work) to make a more correct re-creation. Not because "that's the rules" (there are NO RULES) but because that's funnest for me--that stretches me the most.
I have to kind of unfocus my brain and not see the painting as a bunch of particular objects but as shapes and colors.
And Story too, but I don't always stay with the story.

The story of "A Bar" is kind of sad or scary (even if it's not prostitution, plain old waitressing/ bar tending can be humiliating and exhausting enough!).
My Barmaid is peddling art supplies, and the oranges in the glass bowl are my string of Baltic amber prayer beads from Turkey and the glass bowl they live in on my bedside table.
The little pottery cup was made by our own blogger GZ!

The Barmaid and her potential client reflected in the mirror, negotiating (or whatever), are now someone who's being read to by someone else.
And I'm not even going to try to do the mirror!