Fields of temptation

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Comment by Rose Wang on June 25, 2014 at 23:39

very nice color. Thomas

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on June 25, 2014 at 18:30

Thanks , Craig, Betsy and Britt!
Barry Raybould (VAA) says one should have a good reason to break rules.
Britt, i agree with you. My colors here do not give a good feeling of space and those reds seem over the top.
The subject was to difficult and i should first study the surface structures of fields with less color. I gave in to the temptation ;-)

Comment by Britt Greenland on June 25, 2014 at 16:09

Thomas, I don't believe in always, always following the rules, but more saturation and contrast and warmth closer to us, will help with the depth perception. 

Comment by Betsy Jenkins on June 25, 2014 at 14:17

Lovely work. I enjoy looking at your paintings.

Comment by Craig Seaborn on June 25, 2014 at 10:17

Hi Thomas nice work

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on June 25, 2014 at 7:16

Thank a lot for your comments. I read them carefully.
For me this is a failure in its main aspect, the field. The background and trees correspond to what i saw, the field not.
I think the saturation of the reds was fairly high and i am not too much over the top there. But i didn't manage to find the needed combination of colors to make the reds believable to me. Little idea if is hue, saturation, value or whatever combination.

Comment by mario alberto velazquez on June 25, 2014 at 6:30

Beautiful technique !!!   simply wonderful painting..

Comment by Hyun(Jane) kim on June 25, 2014 at 5:11

Very much well done!! Look at the background mountain! I like this!

Comment by Ann Turner on June 25, 2014 at 4:41

Thomas nice painting with great brush work ! I like the cool and warm road, the nice variety of greens intermixed with the reds. It is hard to include that amount of red but you have pulled it off with the use of orange reds and pink reds. The atmospheric perspective of the mountains lets us go back into the painting. Watch the shapes of the trees, the ones at the end of the flowers are 5 round shapes in a row the an elongated rectangle tree next to a round one.(Laural & Hardy trees) They need more variety of shape to bring interest but keep the nice lost edges and freshness of your foliage. I just noticed that you have a cloned Laural and Hardy set of trees across the street. Your brushwork is great with freshness and clean color, like you have loved the scene and just bashed it on with abandon. It shows emotion and has vibrancy.

Comment by Jon Main on June 25, 2014 at 4:24

Daring - but it works!!

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