Fisherman's Wharf (slightly redesigned!)

Water soluble oil on 12" x 16" canvas

Phew! Finished it! (I think?!)

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Comment by Jessica Futerman on May 26, 2013 at 20:05: Thanks Ningning! Everyone's advice was very helpful & appreciated!

Comment by Ningning Li on May 26, 2013 at 18:54: jessica, What a lucky girl you are. I love this one and learned a lot from those valuable comments.

Comment by Jessica Futerman on May 23, 2013 at 18:41: Thanks a lot for your encouraging comments, Michael! Hope I have time to work on this a little before the deadline, but if not, still feel I've learned something here! The water was the most difficult part for me.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on May 23, 2013 at 10:21: happy to see that you used your own design! Your revised composition looks good. All your distant, muted colors are very well painted. Your water looks good with the gradations handled quite well! Agree with Stu on his assessment of the building area....

Comment by Jessica Futerman on May 23, 2013 at 4:21: Thank you Silvana! It's a fun one to do, isn't it? Lots to learn too.

Comment by Silvana M Albano on May 23, 2013 at 3:17: I like your new design, and specially the back bd and boats!

Comment by Jessica Futerman on May 22, 2013 at 19:08: Thanks very much for your comments Dor, Ngaire & Laura! And thank you very much Stu for your detailed analysis - I appreciate the time you took to give me your feedback. I see what you mean about the competition for the focal point - first I did have the rest of the building darker, but I boosted the chroma because I thought it was a bit boring! I guess I overdid it! I found it a challenge to figure out how to move the eye around to the back when I was trying to keep the contrast there low. I thought the highlights on the masts/boats would pull the eye back enough, but I guess not? The idea of lightening the water a little more in the back is a good idea. I'll work on this some more; thanks again. It's a really good learning experience.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on May 22, 2013 at 15:13: Jessica, I did not see the one before, but this is very good. You have the atmospheric perspective well nailed down in your boats and distant building, but in your foreground building (the deck with the figures and umbrella are your obviious focal point because of their bright colors, contrast and detail) you have some strong competition for attention among your different shapes with their bright oranges and reds. My eye wants to stay there and not go back into the rest of the picture. The way to resolve this is by picking out the umbrella and people as your brightest color and killing the chroma (adding complementary colors) some of the reds and oranges on the rest of the building. To draw your eye further back into the painting more, you also could lighten up some of the distant water and at least the front corner of the roof of the distant building. You want the viewer to move around some in the painting and not just stay on that deck. I think you certainly acheived very well the goals of this workshop. Nice work, and I really like your figures on the deck. Stu