Santa Barbara Boardwalk 24x18 canvas

Ok Guys I need your opinion. Still on the easel and ready for any last minute changes. I can't fix the clouds-textured to thick and dried already. This canvas paints much different than the study on arches paper. I may add more warmth to the bottom concrete and sharpen up the front edges below the people sitting directly at the front of the umbrellas with his back turned away. What do you think guys? I left out the trees over the building on the right and debating whether to add them in? Help! (did no photoshop editing-some shots of this were better than others. I took this out into the shade on a cloudy day to photograph with iphone 6.)

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Comment by Michael J. Severin on October 14, 2016 at 6:56: Hi Jeri. One more thing ... the windows ... the value is good, but maybe make them a little warmer since they are being hit by the sunlight. The group of people and the umbrellas are your focal point .. so it is important that you emphasize that whole shape using the tactics I described below .... that is, strengthening your darks, hard edges, most saturated color, most contrast of anything. When your done with all that, then put a few sparkling highlights ..the diamonds as I like to call it .... at strategic places at your focal point. :)

Comment by Michael J. Severin on October 14, 2016 at 6:48: Hi Jeri. Wow, this is going to be quite a successful painting! I don't think you need the trees .. I do not see a purpose for them ... but .... I would fix the angle of your roof line and eave line... they should incline .. down .. toward the vanishing point on the left ...that is just a small linear perspective problem .. easy fix. If the roof edge were longer, then I would have said yes to the trees .. maybe ... but a dark shape over there would cause the viewer to focus on that ... and that is not where you want us to focus. The tall palm trees balance the composition quite well! .. so leave all that, and don't worry about the clouds .. they look excellent!!! Now here is one thing that I have discussed with Candi .. sunlight is not blue .. that is too cold of a color. Sunlight is warm, and thus using warmer colors are advisable to give the illusion of warm sunlight. I would change the entire flat ground plane to a predominant warm sunlight color .. and then add blue reflections into that. You want to show the illusion of sunlight .. so go to the warm side of the wheel .. your yellow/oranges, yellows, etc. Then, use cool blue/violet for your shadows ... you then immediately set up the illusion of warm sunlight. That also means that you should put warm notes into anything that is in the direct sunlight .. such as your umbrellas ... you have tinted them with white, which is a cool color .. try to put some warm sunlight color notes into those tints .. and then watch how they transform into being in the sunlight!! Be sure to throw warm reflected light back up into that wall on the right. Make sure the shadows under the umbrellas extend all the way to the left .. connect to the edge of the canvas .. and may up the building wall a little? Make any figures in the group that are in the shadow of the umbrellas, a little darker .. especially the ones standing up ..they are not receiving too much reflected light because they are in that shadow .. so they should be a wee bit darker. I might even be tempted to extend the shadows from the retaining wall a wee bit? Okay, so the biggest things: Correct the roof and eave perspective and make the walkway a predominant warm tone. Strengthen some of your dark values under the umbrella, and then look around your painting for places to put some dark accents. Hope that helps? :))