Strongest design??

I am taking a year long class from Elizabeth Barton and got some feedback on one of my sketches. The design is from a photo I took of Paris rooftops and chimney pots this past summer. For the assignment I sketched it out trying to shade in various values since this was basically supposed to be a value study. Before I even sent the sketch to Elizabeth I knew that the roof on the lower right was too strong. Why do we know something, but refuse (or are too dumb) to change it? I guess I was copying the photo too much. I have to remember that people don’t create the values in their city buildings to result in a great design in a photo without editing.

Elizabeth also pointed out that there is not much happening on the left side of the sketch. Boy I did not even see that. Again I was just drawing what I saw in the photo. So I had some work to do. She also suggested that cropping to just the interesting stuff might be better.

Here’s what I tried.

 Sketch 1: Cropping to just the right side where most of the stuff is happening

 

Sketch 2:  Cropping out the large dark roof top on the right and adding another chimney on the left.

Sketch 3:  Adding a chimney on the left side and toning down the large dark roof top

 

Sketch 4:  Same as 3, but moving the chimney on the left further to the left

Sketch 5:  Cropping the right hand side of the original sketch, but toning down the roof

So the question is which is the strongest design? Which one would you make into a quilt?  I think I know which one I am leaning toward, but your feedback would be helpful.

Thanks for reading.

Chris