Stroking her chin in thought, Mabelle decided it was a rather creative solution, and would have let him get away with it if it weren't for the fact she'd inevitably have to correct him again for the same thing. Obviously he was missing the point because she hadn't even a chance to actually make it yet, and so Mabelle picked the slightly shorter candlestick up again to continue. "So they're now about the same height," she shrugged, holding them side by side for comparison. Then she brought the skull forward by stretching her arm out in front of her and pulled the candlestick back, clearly an exaggeration of the distance between them in than on the table but much easier to illustrate what she was trying to show him. "Logically, you know they're still the same height. That's the problem. But now the skull is closer, and it appears larger, even if it really isn't." It wasn't the best explanation she could have given, but she hoped it was adequate, placing the objects back down as they were.
"But you're right, I didn't consider that at all," she admitted, stepping away from the arranged vanitas. Grabbing a chair from the side of the room, she dragged it over to behind where Michel stood at the easel. Grabbing his arm and lifting her skirt enough that she wouldn't trip over it when she placed her bare foot on the seat, Mabelle climbed onto the chair and surveyed the room from her new height.
"Fuck, you're tall," she observed, hands on her hips as she compared his painting to the still life again. It did look quite a bit different than from down on the ground. "Well, it makes a little more sense, but you're still wrong, and from your perspective so was I. The top of the vase is a lot wider from this angle." Mabelle frowned, easily accepting that she messed up, but feeling a bit discouraged that she messed him up as well with her own oversight. Or undersight, she supposed. "Would you prefer to fix it, or should I? It's easy to fix when it's just guidelines, at least." That was the nice thing about painting, the ability to cover any mistakes with more paint.