strange world :-p

Nice stuff Rebecca, it may have more impact if the horizon was level instead of falling edges both at the base of the distant hills and the merging of the red into yellow. best Mick

Hi Mick, thanks for your comments and thoughts................. i am not too sure what you mean though. Do you mean no blending browny colour into yellow? and make sure the base of the mountains is straight................? hmmmm il try that anyway just in case this is what you mean :-) Thank you :-p

Like the strong colours, but horizons, like water, need to be level - however surreal your paintings may be, they will lose something if they don't relate to the real world. Take a good look outside - look into the farthest distance; ultimately, the land lies flat against the sky even when mountains break the horizon line:eg, they break a line, yes: but the line is still there, cutting through any protruding shape - it has to be, given the shape of the world itself. Lose that fundamental sense of shape, and your paintings will always seem to be slightly off-centre, skew-whiff, unconvincing.

Thank you for your opinion Robert :-)

Bright, bright, bright Rebecca. What very brave use of mixed media. Lucky you having Robert give a detailed opinion. He has such a great knowledge . I really respect his opinion.

:-p thank you Sylvia :-) i will try to add in Robert's advise to my next work, though it's rather complicated to understand, but i get the point about straight horizon lines, i just then do not know what to add in after i have added mountains, so i end up with dead trees and a person................... :-p i think my imagination is tired at the moment :-) i appreciate your comments Sylvia :-)

By the way Robert i do respect your opinions, ( just in case you may think i don't) bare in mind, I am thick and do not always understand intense strict art teaching methods/techniques. :-p

No probs Rebecca. :-)

:-p that is the trouble i have with my creativity. I have no plan, then i create something, but do not always know what to add to what i have created in order to finish it........... something is missing i feel from a lot of my paintings, but i am not sure what apart from 'college tecniques) no doubt :-p for example ,i start off with the sky, and feel i must add mountains, and then paint grass at the bottom, but then i am left with the middle.............. :-p

I really do know that feeling . Why not sit and look and sit and look and ....boringly sit and look. Then grab your paper and paints npaint what you have seen. LOL knowing you you will find a stripey pig somwhere.

:-p now that's funny!! a stripey pig...........now that is a thought :-) seriously though, i do just sit and look, even been known to put it to one side while i am doing another painting, then go back to it, but it has been a problem for a while for me to know what to put in the middle of the paintings.

I really do know that feeling . Why not sit and look and sit and look and ....boringly sit and look. Then grab your paper and paints npaint what you have seen. LOL knowing you you will find a stripey pig somwhere.

i have noticed that some people have in fact not bothered with the middle of their paintings, and have just for instance painted a row of trees and grass, so il have a think :-)