Pond - Cuyahoga Valley

[Spyderbabe]

MY IMAGE(S):
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Critiques/upload_spool/09-18-2004/23281_pond.jpg


GENERAL INFORMATION:
Title: Pond - Cuyahoga Valley
Year Created: 2004
Medium: Acrylic
Surface: Canvas
Dimension: 8 x 10
Allow digital alterations?: Yes!

MY COMMENTS:
Tamed it down a bit for ths last one of the day.

MY QUESTIONS FOR THE GROUP:
Anything

[Tamana]

Though I still see Kathleen, and I do like the tranquility the piece suggests (love the soft butter sky), I'm left lacking on this one compared to viewing your other two. I keep looking for some chops and textures and bold loose application extending beyond the cattails...

[sugar tree gal]

Kathleen ,I love the way you paint, so loose and free.. this is great..Janice

[Spyderbabe]

Tamana - sometimes a girl has got to settle down :D A lot of this is just me saying,"what will happen if I do this" Believe it or not I started out playing with cast shadows on grass and then this pond appeared.....

Thanks Janice - sometimes I think loose and free and more to do with being impatient! I once tried quilting - I could never do anything so exacting. My instructor wanted us to cut out each piece one by one. I was folding the fabric in order to cut out 8 at a time. Although I did get a bit caught up in the grasses here.

[sugar tree gal]

Kathleen, i can relate to that.. I tried painting some jewelry once, that drove me crazy, give me a BIG brush.. and let me have at it...Janice :clap:

[Gilberte]

The way you broke up the greens is excellent ...

[Michael-Ann]

This is excellent greens and butter-golden-yellows. My favorite little detail of this, are the evergreens on the horizon viewer-left...so cool how you did the light breaking them apart and yet they are without question evergreens.

[Wayne Gaudon]

love the rock ..

[Spyderbabe]

Wayne - the rock was a happy afterthought - done with a knife :p
Michael Ann - thansk...are there enought trees there?
Gilberte - you spotted the original trouble spots... I went back more than once to highlight and darken those greens
Sugar Tree Gal :wave: I agree!

[YLCIA]

The way you broke up the greens is excellent ...

I am with Gilberte :)

Julia