Hello,

Very well done ! If I had a critique, do you think that the foreground adds anything to the storytelling ? If it was me, I would have cut this part, except maybe if the message that you convey is that concrete can be found everywhere nowadays, even in the “wildest” places… Kinda depressing message, but heh it’s true.

Beautiful landscape! You achieved the visual distance quite well. I agree about the parking area…to me it cuts off the view. Just one picky thing…check the verticals on the cottage on the ridge. It seems to lean slightly. Would not be as noticeable except for the bright colors.

I’ve visited the coast of Oregon but wouldn’t be swimming there…even in August the water was very cold!

No glass.

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Lovely painting. If I am not mistaken this is in County Sligo, and Sligo (besides being the home of my favourite poet, Yeats), is next to County Donegal where my parents were both born, so this feels like a comfortable place to me. I agree with the comment about the car parking area. It ends up being superfluous to what we “see” and thus a distraction in the composition.

I rather like the pavement in front, it draws the eye in a makes the scene a little different. Only thing, however, it seems to me that the colors of the cottage are a little too bright for the distance it’s at, though not by much. But overall, I really like the painting.