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Subject: Country Landscape

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benmb
Posts:9
10/25/2007 6:44 PM Alert 

11X14 on canvas.

Comments, criticisms and suggestions welcome.





billmahler

Posts:184
10/25/2007 8:19 PM Alert 
Nicely drawn and nicely color choices.
A couple of suggestions:
The roof of the large barn is light, suggesting that the light is shining toward it The shadows in the painting don't seem consistent with that.
That big dark mass on the hill is overpowering the painting. You might want to make that hilll lighter and smaller.
..send ye not therefore to know for whom the bell tolls- it tolls for thee. John Donne
benmb
Posts:9
10/27/2007 6:27 PM Alert 

Thanks for the suggestions. Don't know why I didn't realize the roof was too light, but that's easy to change. The hill, on the other hand, isn't, without changing the entire character of the picture, which I choose not to do at this point. Your point is well taken.

Ben
pastelmimigt

Posts:359
10/27/2007 7:53 PM Alert 
Nice work. I love the land colors and the way they contrast well with the mountain. I'd make the sky a darker blue on the top (that's the "rule" I've heard). And add some more interest in the left part of the sky to bring the eyes back into the painting because the mountain leads the eyes out to the right. I wonder if a little bit of the lighter orange/pink that's on the land would do this.

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