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Subject: Autumn Woods - for comments

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arl
Posts:30

11/04/2007 5:43 PM Alert 

Hi. My name is Arlene Babad and I work on canvas and watercolour paper. This painting is 7.5 by 7 inches on watercolour paper. I would appreciate all comments/critique. One problem I had was that the trees seemed to fall off the left side of the paper. I addressed this by adding the long diagonal tree and made the focal point at the top of this tree. The trees create a pattern and  I was not able to unite this in to large shapes. I hope I connected the trees by the orange foreground and leaves. Thank you for providing me with your comments. Arlene

 







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SunsetSue

Posts:111

11/08/2007 1:20 AM Alert 
Hi Arlene and welcome to the Artist's Network. I am not sure what to tell you about this as I have a completely different style. I like your color combination, but am not sure the composition works for me. Perhaps a more dominant focal point would help. Please do not take this for gospel as I am not qualified to give a good critique. I hope someone else has some more insight for you.
Sue
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arl
Posts:30

11/08/2007 6:52 AM Alert 

Hi Sue. Thanks for your comments. I beefed up my focal point and did some other work on it after I did the post. This isn't my usual style but I loved the autumn colours.

Arlene Babad   

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somats
Posts:1

11/09/2007 2:10 AM Alert 
Hi Arl, The mass of reds in the upperpart of yur painting overpower the very subtle range of greens. A few carefully placed accents of red would have been enough. Also the long straight light (tree trunks?) would have been more interesting visually, and more truthful literally if they were broken or shorter, rather than long very dynamic marks. Hope this helps. Somats
arl
Posts:30

11/09/2007 8:49 AM Alert 

Thank you Somats. Your advice is very helpful. Arlene Babad

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