What did you think I was going to do: simply clone a photograph with a nickel’s worth of texturing and try to pass it off as art? Ah, perish the thought!
I began to smear the color I’d brought up by cloning, then added more color, then smeared some more, subtracted color here and there, smeared some more, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. When the work goes well, all this seems to happen by itself. When all doesn’t go well, I revert to the most recently saved version, or back up one or two—or as many as several dozen—iterations, then proceed forward again. Incidentally, much of the color wasn’t cloned from the source scan. A single tap with the tip of the Wacom stylus turns off cloning and lets one work with any and all colors in the RGB gamut.