Great Gable across Wastwater

Very nice, Paul, I like the rough texture you have painted on the hillsides and the cloud touching the top of the left hand peak. I notice that you have done some JFW like scratching out in the grass. To be honest it's the one feature of his paintings that I don't really get - but who am I to argue?

I like it very much Paul, especially the sky, love the heavy cloud on the left. The tone in middle distant tree and hedge row give it depth against the warmer tones of the foreground. I like the scratching out too. Very nice!

I think this is a beautiful landscape, Paul. About the scratching: I (in my opinion) find it a bit too regular, there is almost no difference in hight between the ones in the foreground and those in the middle distance.

Thank you all for the comments. The right hillside was a happy accident. I painted it too uniformly and had to lift some paint off and that was the result. The left mountain and cloud was a JFW feature I noticed, but mine looks like a volcano about to go off. I'd change the shape of the cloud if I was doing it again or make the cloud more misty than cloudy. Yes Mia you're right about the scratching. I also haven't placed them very cleverly, or varied the number or direction of them. JFW scratches are much shorter and broader and when I started the scratching and saw how thin they were I rushed around to try and find something else to scratch out with before the paint dried. I was guilty of concentrating more on finding a tool to scratch out with than where I was placing them etc.