Fantasy

A dramatically beautiful piece, Pat. It's beautifully composed, and I love the rays of light bathing the hill top.

Thank you, Seok. It has been quite a challenge.

The pale green really lifts the painting - so don't worry about two much green. perhaps the dark green in the distance could be lighter to give more aerial perspective. Either that or more contrast in the foreground. Loveley painting though.

Thank you Linda, that´s helpful.

No, not too much green, Pat. It's lovely, and the greens are so varied, they are almost completely different colours. The pale green in the valley really lifts the whole image, and accentuates the other greens, and links up with the paler green of the foreground cow parsley. A great painting to hang on any wall.

Thank you Ann. Very encouraging.

Took a look, liked it, but thought I'd give it a day before making my mind up. I still like it: I don't think there are too many greens, which was your concern: green works fine in paintings, even though so many are nervous of it, provided only that it's varied. I particularly like that cool green in the near foreground, which sets off the lilac flowers. I think one of the problems people have with green is that they just don't know how to mix it, and so flap desperately between different tubes of ready-mixed colours: there's not much wrong with that, in fact - the key is in the word 'desperately': of course,if you throw any blessed green you can find at a painting in the hope that ONE of them is going to work, you're in for trouble. If you take any old blue and any old yellow and mash them together in the hope of producing a convincing green, similarly you're headed for that tellingly-named creek in a barbed-wire canoe. But the thing is to stop and think, rather than start and panic - you need to know your colours if you're planning a largely green painting, and you obviously do. You couldn't have done this if you didn't. And very often, even if you do hit trouble, it's amazing what a bit of glazing can do: glazing and scumbling - the landscape painter's friends.

Thank you Robert. You are spot on. Tube greens never look right. It is amazing what raw umber or even burnt sienna will do to them. It makes them look much more realistic. I have heard that an old master - was it Raphael or Titian ? - is said to have told his apprentices that they should make their greens dirty.

I had looked at this when you first posted it Pat . Intending to log on a nd make comment, then in my usual fash I forgot. Just seen your post on the forum so have come back for another look . Quite agree Roberts composition re greens is very insightful, we are so lucky to have him. I remember my first feeling when I first viewed this thinking how peaceful and gentle it is I would love to go there and walk through that valley. . The sun shining through the clouds leading the way. I am sure your daughter loves it.

Thank you Sylvia. Yes, my daughter is quite happy with the result.