Golden afternoon at Chinaman's Bluff - Final revision

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Comment by Dan Lancaster-Kelly on October 22, 2011 at 2:29

love your trees good work,i like your focal point

Comment by Casey Toussaint on October 20, 2011 at 5:35

Lovely!

Comment by Rick Harder on October 18, 2011 at 11:50

I can smell the air, here the water, and feel the afternoon warmth on my skin. There's a slight breeze which adds movement to the trees and grass.  This painting "lives."

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on October 18, 2011 at 7:12

Susan, lovely capture of afternoon light.  The only thing a notice that doesn't look quite right is the top of the rocks over on the left are too bright for shade and not golden enough for your late afternoon sun effect.  If you warm them up, put some warm light on the water there.  If you cool them a little they will be fine.  Nit-picky, huh?  Wish I could see stuff like that in my paintings before I think they are finished.  Overall, a beautiful painting.  Thank you for sharing all three of your paintings with us.  Ditto to Deb's comment; it is fun watching the paintings come in.  Stu

Comment by deb hill on October 17, 2011 at 23:41

Really nice. It is fun watching the paintings come in.

Comment by Dirk Rampling on October 17, 2011 at 20:41

The light is beautiful, has a real late afternoon feel. I really like your crop of the pic too.

Comment by Susan Skuse on October 17, 2011 at 19:42

This is the final version of my second workshop painting.  I have done some further glazing to put more emphasis on the tree on the right hand side.  I also decided to crop the painting down to a rectangular format - although I did like the rocky, flowing stream, the composition just didn't seem right.  Sorry to inflict three photos on you in this process - I was going to delete the other two, but then thought that the revision process might be of interest to some.