Painting exercise

I recently performed an exercise where you paint the same scene 10 different ways, colors, perspective, etc. My goal was to have a better painting than the previous painting and by the end have a well-balanced piece. I learned a valuable lesson in that next doesn't equal better, rather next just means next. It's just another way of presenting your ideas, it doesn't necessarily mean better. See below for the 2 exercises I performed and the resulting paintings in order.