Up on the Downs Again

I think that it works as it is Robert. My eye is drawn to the light area at the top of the hill. It doesn't need anything else. On second thoughts, what about just darkening the greener clump of grass bottom left? No other changes though, I can't really see a problem!

Well you know me, never can resist adding my tuppence worth . Love the foliage on the bottom right and the sweep of the downs , Ican see where you are coming from, my eye sort of travels off to the upper left. Maybe a very thin birch tree from the trees on the left jußt rising above the height they already are.... But I also think if you put it into a mount it would uniform and bring it together... so ignore me. Its lovely.

It's a good one Robert bur perhaps to balance the weight and stop the eye exiting top left I think I would add a bit of strong cloud shadow in that corner. As for a focal point the path asks for it to be central where it goes behind the trees which is not ideal. I think I would want to extend the path so that it disappears behind the left hand side of the central bush taking care to retain a slight curve - I think you can just about achieve this. Hope to see it posted again with any changes you chose to make.

A no-brainer: wind turbine (or twelve). Alternatively you could add another tern or two. But I'd leave it - and love it.

A useful collection of ideas, ta .... I shan't change this one, but will do another; as for the wind turbines - well, so far no wind turbine has received planning permission in any sensitive place on the Isle of Wight - and I don't want to paint the rotten things, either..... How about a turbine on one of your mountains, Kim? And then again, how about not....

I'm with the 'leave it alone party' on this one. I especially like the way you have portrayed the trees.

I tried to think of all kinds of different things to put there but at the end I thought: it looks fine as it is. Problem solved Robert!

Just a more pronounced bird in the sky top left would do it for me. Like Kim's idea of the wind turbines, but I suspect he wasn't serious. I actually thought this was pastel or pencil work because of the rich texture of it, so I am amazed it is watercolour. Great tree in the bottom right - perfect.

Aha - a boid - handily, we have large numbers of buzzards, and reasonably considerable numbers of peregrines, out here; I could make a feature of one of those.... I think that suggestion, plus Michael's in particular (he's right, that path is dead centre) would probably do it. I have a feeling I'd like to do this in oil - I've never yet re-painted a watercolour and found it any kind of improvement on what went before: once the initial freshness of the impression is gone, any labour expended on trying to re-create it is just too obvious.

It's lovely Robert, love the colours in it and the tall windswept grasses and the tree and shrubs

I'm not adding any new ideas but I just want to say that your textures are wonderful. How about some sheep?