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Rickert Mork

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I’m having a painters block here,  what should I add or delete to this one it looks off to me, should I paint over the waterfall? It’s oil on canvas, been doing oil for 4 years acrylic for many more years.  

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Welcome! IYou need to tell us why YOU think it looks ‘off’ to start with! We need a starting point… From my perspective, I can’t really see what is going on, apart from an awful lot of detailed brush work throughout the piece, with little or no aerial perspective or consideration of tonal values! A focal point? I’m not sure but it’s a complicated composition… That’s how I read it, but this might be your style of working, we need more information please. Other members may see it differently than I do, Robert Jones will have an opinion I’m sure…

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Andrew Roles

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Welcome to POL. I agree with Alan, terrific detail but what do you think it needs?  I’m assuming the tree is on a hill and we are looking down into a waterfall and a bay with hills in the distance. From my totally amateur perspective I think you need to make the background elements simpler (less detail)  and tonally weaker to push them back and make the foreground stand out.  Objects in the distance should also be slightly bluer . 

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Welcome, first of all. The first thing to say about your painting is that I like it, and it reminds me of a number of different artists - I'm trying to identify in my mind who they might be (I know one is or was a Russian), but that's hard work because it's your painting not theirs, and you've incorporated elements in your painting which are all your own: the thickness of paint, the precise brushwork.   I think the weakness of it as an image lies in its composition - plus the absence of an obvious light source, and some rather incongruous wavy lines, where you'd expect sharper definition and more horizontal strokes: this is particularly so in the distance, and there's (as Alan  pointed out) not a lot of sign of aerial perspective.  That can work -but it needs to look like (and be) a deliberate choice, rather than a position arrived at in the process of working on the painting which hasn't been resolved in the final version.  It has a lot of potential, though - it's interesting - makes you ask where it is, makes you react to it; it's not something I'd just pass by with a cursory glance if it were on a gallery wall.  

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Wow that was a lot of information, thank you guys, I will read everything that was said several times.  I have a few others I can post, do these suffer from the same issues? And I posted some while I was making this one

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Please excuse my rudeness,  I am really looking for some super experienced artists to boost my (better than mediocre work).  I will take any criticism of any kind.  I don’t paint stuff from photos because I think it’s cheating.  I am hoping for some detailed criticism.  

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