Babbling Brook

It was the strong contre-jour that interested me... come to think of it I already have a painting that's similar, I'm going to have to study the values and try to get lighter and more color in there...

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Comment by Jon Main on July 21, 2014 at 6:15

Comment by Jon Main on July 21, 2014 at 6:14: Thanks, Michael - that's valuable input - wipe out the lights, you mean, I guess... OK... I'll redo it - thanks a bundle!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 21, 2014 at 1:19: Jon, If your concept is going to be contre-jour, then your light must be much, much lighter and the light must envelope everything. Also, on composition: You have 2 equal masses on each side of the river and the river smack dab in the middle of these 2 equal masses! ...you are too much of an accomplished painter to make that kind of a blunder. On technique: When going for contre-jour, try using the "wipe out" technique ... especially when you have a lot of complex shapes.

Comment by Jon Main on July 20, 2014 at 23:14: Ian, I didn't think of that at all! (too busy thinkiung about the foliage and stuff!) - but Laura and Joy, what you say is so true - don't know how I missed that - re-design being one of Richard's main teaching points (did you see how well he did it in the ebook?!!) Thanks, Rose!

Comment by Rose Wang on July 20, 2014 at 21:40: beautiful.

Comment by Laura Xu on July 20, 2014 at 14:47: Jon, The composition is very nice, and I like the relationship between light, dark, warm and cool. You may want some trees to lean into the painting rather than all lean out of the painting.