A scottish river by Grahame Hards

The water is really good in this, especially where it falls away to the left, and the rocks are convincing. Less convinced by trees and sky; the tones are too close together - try to indicate clumps of leaves with light and dark, and bring in some stronger linear touches for trunks and branches: give the leaf forms a structure to hang on to. The sky could do with some variation in brush work, ie it's a bit horizontal in appearance. Distant hills are well done.

You have captured a sense of space and place here. I can smell that fresh air, and the figure gives it all scale. Great