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Your painting needs depth. When the entire painting has the same value it's flat, nothing recedes and nothing comes forward. You need more contrasts...darkest darks and brightest brights. You've got…
Replied May 28
If not going for an impressionist effect, I just use the color wheel and put a touch of the complement in the mix. Cast shadow on green grass gets the original green plus some bit of red (this would…
Replied May 28
I like the foreground, but you faded out too fast with the first hill on the right and so had no where to go tonally after that. There's more washed out area than saturated and it pulls the whole thi…
Replied Apr 10
Thanks for your thoughts. It occurs to me that the problem is probably only in my mind on the many that have historical markers because they are already photographed and published somewhere, so perha…
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