The Lost Uplands

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Comment by Jon Main on July 29, 2016 at 17:59

Yeah, you're right Joy - I find those trees very hard to do - maybe I should make them mush more massed and indistinct... thanks...

Comment by Jon Main on July 29, 2016 at 4:05

Gee, thanks, Michael! - great! - I'll get cracking. Hope this lesson starts to sink in, I seem to be having difficulty with it....

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 29, 2016 at 1:31

Houses on left ... Roof lines and some edges meeting.  House on right .. point of roof touches background trees.  Each tier of background trees touches each other.  Background trees tangent to edges of picture plane. Telephone pole? Tangent to side of house on left.  The top of the red shape even with top of hedge?  Anyway, I am not being picky, I only critique things that have an impact on the painting ... and those tangents are impacting your illusion of depth, which is very important to this painting because you have many receding planes that require visual cues to separate each other..... those tangent shapes tend to flatten out that particular space.

Comment by Jon Main on July 28, 2016 at 17:51

Thanks, Michael,  seem to have a major prob with tangents! - which ones are you seeing that I need to eliminate/change? the top of the front bush? and, um, ...

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 28, 2016 at 16:44

Great painting Jon .... be careful of those doggone tangent lines ... they really flatten out the depth where they are occurring.  This is a very nice painting, so you might as well go around your painting and fix them.