PTG Exercise 1 - Field Textures

I do love the colours in this work, excellent.

Paul selected Sandra&#39;s version of his first exercise to appraise, as he felt she had particularly followed the remit of the challenge.<br /><br />Appraisal<br />Great effort here Sandra. You’ve really utilised the techniques to make as much of the bland foreground as possible. Not an easy challenge with so much foreground space, so I like the way you have utilised the dark values, the yellow and the oranges in un-thinned paint and applied a thinner wash over the top, creating interesting rivulets of colour. If you have another go at this I would suggest you make the sky a simple powder blue colour. This will provide a band of easy colour which will place more emphasis on the textured field as well as colour contrast against the dominant orange. Also, as indistinct as it is, you really need to tighten up on the focus of the farm building, perhaps by extending the darker trees behind it to make more contrast. This will make your painting much stronger in terms of design. I really like the runny paint effect but try to make it more in keeping with the colour scheme if you can, ie a slightly lighter yellow/orange. Apologies if it already is (I know how colours can look different in a photograph). Thank you so much for taking up the challenge and I hope you find my comments helpful?<br />Happy Painting<br />Paul