I wanted to tackle this image from our
Virtual Sketchwalk group on FaceBook.
This is a lesson in positive critique…
I want to paint the light.
I’m a novice.
Nothing wrong with being a novice…
But dang how to paint this light?
Oh gads, NOOOOOO, this did not work…
Not even for the low expectations of this novice!
I have a red ghost tree in front of the haunted mansion!
- Okay, the windows are too dark, that is making it odd.
- The bloody red transparent tree doesn’t work.
- I need to add more trees in the foreground (even though there weren’t more).
- The trees on the horizon are fine.
- The lawn would’ve been okay but I was giving up at that point, still, not bad.
Someone suggested I put some linework in to “save” it, and it helped.
But the whole point of the image was to try to paint the light.
This is my finished piece.
I want to move on, but still my critique:
- The balance between window and building walls is better.
- The red tree is soooo much better, but everything is still very solid.
- I liked my distant trees better in the last image.
- I like the sky, shows movement and possible clouds.
- Shadow way too dark.
- The lawn area is about the same, so okay, neutral.
- And I did better with the light streaming in but still, no cigar… I still don’t like it.
Sometimes, one has to move on.
If this were an image of one of our cats or something/someone I loved I might keep at it,
but this is a group I play in and so I am going to let go of this one and go to the next!
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