Sunlit stream

Trying to apply various lessons here, like putting a brush stroke down & leaving it, applying thicker paint, capturing the values/light better. Please tell me what you think & where I can improve on this - it's still on my easel! Lost my rigger brush just as I was painting the branches so had to stop!!

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Comment by Jessica Futerman on January 19, 2014 at 1:29: Hi Silvana - thanks a lot for your enthusiastic response! I'll re-post this after I attempt to apply Michael's suggestions! As for the rigger - for me it's a lot easier to control than a credit card when painting branches, so will just have to buy a new one! Or paint thicker branches!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on January 18, 2014 at 11:55: Wow! For the painting and for Micahel's explanation! I like is very much as it is, so I suppose with all those suggestions it will be just superb! Well, the rigger brush got tired of being used... perhaps you should take the credit card?????

Comment by Jessica Futerman on January 18, 2014 at 10:07: Thank you very much Laura for your nice, encouraging comment! Michael - I really appreciate your taking the time to look at this painting & give me these excellent pointers! I think if I look at the painting you have just posted, I can see how you do this yourself. I will work on it some more. I wish I could say the rigger fell in the water, but this is painted en plein studio!! Actually, I think it fell in the garbage by mistake!!

Comment by Laura Xu on January 18, 2014 at 6:27: Jessica, I am not the one can tell you how to improve the painting, but I can tell you it will be a great painting.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on January 18, 2014 at 6:25: Hi Jessica. Great painting!!! You can really see where you have been studying value relationships. Your putting a brush stroke down and leaving it has paid off tremendously in your painting ....NO MUD!! ..nice clean color. I love the way you have infused the tree with warm light and shifting to cooler greens as you get deeper into the tree...your gradation there is superb. Things to think about: Edge work ..the edges at the bottom of the reeds where they meet the sand bar, is too sharp an edge....keep some of the sharpness, but modify other parts of it ..have a lost edge somewhere ..where the light sand meets some of the light reeds. Relationships: To relate the water to the land, put some of the land color into the water. On the left, the sandy color (but a little darker) could go into the blue. On the other side, some of the darker color of the land mass could go into the water. Light Direction: I assume the light is coming from the left? ...if that is so, then load a brush with white + yellow and put a stroke of sunlight on top of the water as it comes from behind the turn. What happened to your rigger ..did it fall into the water? So anyway .to summerize ..edges, relationship, and light direction.