Picos de Europa (Spain) by Federico Abascal

I think you've succeeded very well, it's excellent.

Impressive mountain!

Lovely light and shade Federico. I don’t know why you aren’t happy with it. I certainly get a sense of the size, towering above us.

I think all your hard work has paid off, your rocks rock!

Excellent painting Federico.

When painting a massive structure, it's not unreasonable to use paint as a sculpting medium - do not reproach yourself! Exploit thick paint to represent geological features, shape your rocks, embody the sheer scale and solidity. The issue you faced here was precisely those close values you identified in your comment - you could have exaggerated them, but we can't always do that and hope to show the world as it really is... this works very well (even if you did have to spend a lot of money on all that paint...).

Stunning work and beautifully executed.

Thank you very much for your comments, tips and encouragement

Excellent!

Terrific Federico

Love the way your beautifully painted light foreground on the left leading the eye down the path, and the bluish right foreground leads the eye up to the warm rock formation. You've beautifully captured the weight and mass of this rock formation. I wouldn't touch this beauty.

Thank you very much Skylar, Russell and Lynne. Lynne, I am happy you mentioned the rocks on the left and the path, those were not on the reference but I thought they would look nice. I find hard to understand principles on how to lead the eye

Coming back for a second bite, because I like this more each time I see it: and I've just read your comment and intro - I think you have the best tutor in the world: yourself - your experience gained from experiment, trying, working, seeing what works, finding out what doesn't work. If you can do this, and your other piece of the same subject, you don't need a tutor: just keep doing what you're doing.

Thank you so much, Robert! Sometimes I want to paint like the masters and get very frustrating, forgetting this is about enjoying. It's a delicate balance :-)

This is almost like a photo. If I didn't know I would say it was. You have mastered this. Superb work.