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You need some basic photo editing software - if it's skew-whiff when you post the picture, that's how it'll stay: it can't be altered on here, but the picture can be saved, put the right way up, and re-posted: which I can't do for the minute, but will later if that's OK with you and if someone hasn't already done it by the time I come back from my weekly shopping.
I'm not keen on viewing your painting like this, because I have to avoid certain movements with my neck, or it clicks horribly and hurts. The joys of ageing are almost endless...........
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Well done Gillian!
Unfortunately I’ve not visited Peru, so I haven’t seen this magnificent site first hand.
However, there’s not a lot wrong with this to be honest John - perhaps darken the V shape section in the central peak, towards the base of the left rock face near to the water, and the foliage bottom right!
Minor details but it might give a bit more contrast I feel. All in all a really good painting!
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It's a brave and bold effort to capture a dramatic landscape, and I think a successful one on the whole: you've dealt with those foreground trees quite cleverly, if I may say so: maybe a bit more tonal contrast elsewhere, just to increase the drama.
The rainbows - well, those are VERY hard to tackle successfully: I've seen all too many where they look as if they've been slapped on the sky like some sort of plastic - yours don't look like that, because you've not made the classic mistake of making the colours too strong (even though in life they can be startlingly strong: it's just not always wise to paint them that way). I'm not too sure of them, to be honest with you - but as I'm entirely unsure I could do any better myself, I'll leave any comment on them to Alan (who could! Always advisable to know one's limitations...).