My Arizona friend asked me to paint a country scene to remind her of growing up on a farm in Kansas.

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Comment by Linda L. Kano on September 3, 2013 at 7:54

Thank you Pauline!

Comment by Pauline Le Merle on September 3, 2013 at 5:18

lovely work Linda,very pleasant to look at, i love the warm sun on the path, and that lovely red roof. :-)

Comment by Silvana M Albano on September 1, 2013 at 9:01

Linda! I know exactly the way you feel! But I am sure you will ruin nothing! 

Comment by Linda L. Kano on September 1, 2013 at 3:07

Thank you Carolyn & no, my friend didn't have a photo reference.  She just said she wanted lots of green. I'm working on making a few changes but it always makes me a little nervous, afraid I'll make it worse!!!

Comment by Carolyn Brunsdon on September 1, 2013 at 3:02

Linda I think Michael covered it all (and good teaching, Michael!) You have created a scene that makes me want to go there, very peaceful yet with lots of color. I really like your concept and the implementation of your vision. Did your friend give you a photo reference? Very, very nice.

Comment by Laura Xu on August 31, 2013 at 12:00

Good job Linda!

Michael, I am learning from you comments too.

Comment by Linda L. Kano on August 31, 2013 at 10:01

Thank you Kim for your suggestion!

Comment by Kim Hayes on August 31, 2013 at 9:05

Linda.... overall you've created a lovely pastoral scene.

My main comment would be to bring the yellow path / road to you( by your signature). This will help the perspective and give a better line into the composition

Comment by Linda L. Kano on August 31, 2013 at 8:22

Great helpful critique Michael!  Thank you!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 31, 2013 at 8:14

Very nice Linda!! ....I see that you did some nice brush work and kept the colors clean!! ..very good.  Your greens are really improving and I like your variety of cool greens with violet compliments in those background trees ..really throws them back nicely.  Your sky is really good as it harmonizes well with the land ...I see you put a lot of green into your sky .very nice.  A couple of things to consider.  You have a peaceful pastoral scene, but jagged lines are not peaceful, they denote action and anxiety!!  If you made your dirt road a more peaceful type of S curve, it would help emphasize your mood.  If you left out the bottom triangle of grass (on the right bottom), and gave us more road, we would have a sense of walking on the road, into your painting.  Also, you want to get us up the road nice and slow and lazily....once again ..an "S" curve ..no straight lines.  Number 2:  Some of those thin trees on the left would look better compositional wise, if you brought them right out of the top!!  That would give more scale to the front plane and give the painting more depth due to the overlapping.   Okay, last thing ....throw some sky color into your red roof back there ....it will put that building into the atmosphere and push it back.  Your trying to rely on size alone to depict depth, but you also need atmospheric perspective AND overlapping.   The most important thing is to alter that 90 degree left turn and the super straight line.

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