Stac Pollaidh

I think you have done really well. Lots of colour and I like the trees in the foreground. The sky is lovely as well.

I agree with Anne, this is lovely

NOWT wrong with with Ann --- Maybe one of best-- Brill

Knicky Knacky Noo ---- I mean one of your best

Stac Polly must be the most painted mountain on this site and this is my favourite. Great foreground, lovely colours on the mountain and I really like the touch of cloud passing over it. That sky is rather good too. Super painting.

Thank you all so much - I really didn't expect compliments - thought it was very much overworked and too busy ...... I'll have to find something else to paint though as I seem to have run out of rusty byres!

Super sky and lovely composition, beautiful painting.

Before I clicked on this painting I said to myself - that's how you do it!! Be confident as this is a wonderful painting and, as you say, it is hard to make a success of painting an essentially empty scene. However, you have filled the scene with subtle colours and made it interesting - super sky as well. Well done!

I would be very, very pleased to end up with a painting as expertly done as this Ann. I can't find a fault at all; great sky, lovely tones and colours in Stac Pol and I like how you have dealt with the problem of an empty foreground.

I think its lovely and obviously I'm not alone, well done Ann.

Definitely nice

I have looked hard at this but cant find anything to criticise - its so well painted. I know what you mean about an empty landscape, sometimes you want to convey the feeling of its vastness and longevity - maybe this done on a larger paper without the foreground bushes would be another great painting !

I think it's pretty well arranged and moves the eye around, Ann. It's lovely as is. There's a lot of atmosphere and the foreground creates just the right amount of contrast with the larger mass of the mountains behind.

Apart from the fact that it's lovely (sky, fell, subtle shadows and hues etc. all great), if you were still dissatisfied you could consider popping a person in. An angler perhaps?

Looks great to me :)

Can't fault it , like everything about it, especially the blue/grey of the rocks, good to see Stac Pollaidh from the other side too. Its not easy painting such vast empty landscapes, or even photographing them.

Thanks everyone for such nice comments - I really thought I had a disaster on my hands, basically as it is nothing like the bleak photo I started with!