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Comment by Silvana M Albano on February 20, 2013 at 9:26

Michael, you can't imagine how all these tips are helping me! I want to start painting again! I have started last March, with a teacher, because I just wanted to learn how to paint the sea. I love the sea, but I found it sooooo diffficult to place movement into something static... that alone, I just couldnt! The teacher I had, helped me with this inner challenge of mine... (I will upload it, so that you can see it).

Unfortunately, in September she moved away, and still couldn't find another one. I have tried learning through the web, and that's how I have come across Richard Robinson!

And now reading your comments and many others in the blog, I really feel I will be able to improve!!!! 

Comment by Michael J. Severin on February 20, 2013 at 9:15

Yes, Silvana .. all the elements in a painting must relate to each other, and one of the ways is to introduce a "mother color" or just make sure that your main elements share each others colors.  For instance:  In a seascape, you can put some of the rock color into the water and water color into the rocks (look at some Winslow Homer seascapes)...that relates the two elements.  In a landscape, some of the land color goes into the sky and sky into the land mass .. but all that should be a little subtle.

Comment by Silvana M Albano on February 20, 2013 at 6:46

Thank you Michael!!! I really needed that feedback! I'll try doing that! I suppose it can be applied to other paintings too!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on February 20, 2013 at 3:04

I love the story you are telling in this painting!!!  Your wheat field is wonderfully painted Silvana!  I can feel the wheat field rolling with the slight wind...excellent.  The bread could be related to the rest of the painting by adding some of the wheat color into it .. a very good painting!