Workshop 33 Paradise

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Comment by Linda L. Kano on July 23, 2014 at 8:56: Thank you! These critiques are very helpful with specific directions on how to improve. Yup...I ran out of values Michael. One of these days I'll get it right! Practice, Practice, Practice :)

Comment by Laura Xu on July 23, 2014 at 4:31: Great comment Michael! I had same value problem when I painted this demo yesterday. I wish I painted after I read your comment. Let me see how I can fix it today or wait to dry.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 23, 2014 at 2:55: Great job on the foreground Linda! ...nice impressionistic strokes. I can see you brush dancing across the foreground trees and grass. Your mountains and sky are a little too dark. One way to judge your sky value is to make sure it is LIGHTER then the landscape (except for the snow, which is lighter then the sky). The way to judge a middle light or middle dark ..as in the first passages of the mountains, is put down your darkest dark somewhere, and COMPARE the middle values to that. What happened here is that you erred on your first passage of middle value on the mountain or sky ...from that point on, you measured everything against the erroneous FIRST value you put down ..which was too dark to begin with. The reason your foreground came out okay, was because you RAN OUT OF VALUES in your distance and you had to abandon the background and treat the foreground as a whole new painting ..where you DID get the first dark value correct and everything else fell into place nicely. Your first color and value MUST be correct Linda, because everything else feeds off of that.

Comment by Betsy Jenkins on July 12, 2014 at 13:05: Hi, Linda,
If you look at Richard's painting, the values between sky and snow are really close, though not exact. The edges kind of melt into each other in some places, though not all. I THINK that they call that lost and found edges, but don't quote me on that!
Anyway, I hope that helps.

Comment by Linda L. Kano on July 12, 2014 at 12:50: I'm continuing to appreciate all your feedback. Many of you point out that you like my foreground and that's good. I need to make the changes to the mountains to create better distance and merge the foreground and mountains together. Maybe I need more snow on all the mountains...or not? Thanks everyone!

Comment by Jeri McDonald on July 12, 2014 at 12:05: The foreground is perfect in every way. Brushwork, subtle color changes as the grasses recede off the edge on the right and just enough blur to the grass to draw the eye to the mountains and the highlighted sky. Maybe soften a couple more edges of those mountains and a bit of warm color dabbled in places on them would merge the foreground and background some. Subtle though, dabs of color or glaze some white mixed with cad orange on top of the snow tops.

Comment by Walda Juhl on July 11, 2014 at 12:19: Linda, you have really loosened up with your brush strokes! It looks great!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on July 9, 2014 at 12:25: Very nice linda! I really like the front plane!

Comment by Olivia O'Carra on July 9, 2014 at 7:44: Linda you have done a great job with this. The foreground colours are great.

Comment by Linda L. Kano on July 8, 2014 at 15:13: Really appreciate all your comments and input my artists' friends! Michael, you should have left it that way, although since we've retired I am not improving my housework...too busy improving my brush strokes!