Autumn in the Park by Graham Smith

the best parts of this painting are its lovely colour scheme, and the way you've achieved the tracery of branches against the light: just on the cusp of being overdone, but - crucially - not over the top. And I speak as one who can fiddle like Nigel Kennedy, but with less happy results. I think the tonal recession could be improved - tones throughout are pretty similar, although on a crisp autumn day, I know that's how it can look. Perhaps a little more modelling on those two trees at the right would help - they are so obvious, because in full light, that the rather stark divide between light and shadow hits the eye a little too forcefully.