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Oils 30x40 cm. This is how the area where I live looked like last week... terrible desolation...
I'd really like some feedback on my painting and how could I improve it...I feel I need some basics... I'm ALL EARS and EYES!!! Thanks in advance to all my artist friends!!!

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Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 17, 2015 at 10:38: Me again ...RATS!! ..I meant to say ..Your Visual POETRY is the story you are telling .......etc. Your painting has great visual poetry. :))

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 17, 2015 at 10:37: Hi Silvana. This is one of your very best paintings!! You have beautiful visual music and visual poetry ..you have captured your feelings about this place in paint! The harmony and unity of this painting resides in your use of a dominant value ...light middle grey. You have simplified your composition by using only 3 values ..always a good thing. I love your compositional structure ...a cruciform with radiating lines influence. Your visual music is your great notan structure, composition, and rhythm of line (the posts). You have nice repetition,...the posts and their reflections, but you could have a little more variety in that repetition. For instance, I see that you made an effort to get variety in the spaces between the posts ..good .....but you also need variety in their values, temps, and heights. The far posts could be a little cooler and lighter in value ...but not much!! The reflections of the posts are a little too dark and need to be simplified a little more ...especially the reflections on the left ..you do not need to paint those reflections all the same ..where the reflection of the man is at the bottom ...should be much lighter. Where ever you have verticals at the edge of the picture, make them slant inward ..not outward. I agree what Candi commented about the sky at the horizon ..a slight lighter pinkish tone across the bottom of the sky? But if you do not think you can do that without messing up your beautiful painting ..then don"t ..the sky thing is not all that important ..those dark repetitive reflections are important ..they should be taken care of. BTW, your visual music is the story you are telling ..the desolation ..I am feeling it.

Comment by Laura Xu on August 17, 2015 at 8:26: Silvan, I wish I am the one can give your any help, but I love the painting even it is!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on August 17, 2015 at 8:15: Ohh Candi! what a nice comment!!! How would you push the horizon sky further? By lightening it?

Comment by Candi Hogan on August 17, 2015 at 8:02: oohhhh LIKE a lot Silvana!!! I'm wondering what Stuart and Michael will suggest. I'm thinking, if anything, just pushing the sky near the horizon just a tad bit further back? BUT, my first impression was WOW!!! Let's see what they say!