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May 13, 2018 at 6:51 pm #456024
Katie Black
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Hi there, this is 20 x 30″ acrylic on board. CnCs.

Is the road okay? I feel like it’s not quite right but I don’t know why.

Do you think it needs another casita perhaps in the top right hand quadrant?

Katie Black Fine Art
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May 13, 2018 at 7:42 pm #621671
bluefish
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I love it…..and it took awhile but I found your signature item….”washing(laurndy)”…:lol:

the color selection is very well coordinated…nice!…the only thing I would re-evaluate is the road leading upward…:rolleyes:
May 13, 2018 at 7:52 pm #621691
wesleydownunder
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Love this one, Katie.

The road, to me, looks like it should change perspective as it passes in front of the houses…you’d see it more “edge-on” than from directly above.

Mark

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May 14, 2018 at 12:13 am #621685
ColinS, Moderator, Victoria British Columbia
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Gosh this is wonderful!! I love this style you are exploring right now.

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May 14, 2018 at 8:12 am #621688
fedetony
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cool style… Costarica is a beautiful place

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May 14, 2018 at 10:40 am #621674
LavenderFrost Moderator, Acrylics
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Nice! Is this from a reference or imagination? If you don’t have a reference I would try to find something similar to compare the road to.

C&C always welcome. Michelle

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May 14, 2018 at 10:54 am #621670
gaykir
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Just delightfully appealing. Wonderful depth and texture. I too found the laundry after a diligent search.

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May 14, 2018 at 11:15 am #621679
Katie Black
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Blue – I’ve decided the road is now a footpath but its still not quite right and I am going to tweak it and post it in the next couple of days.
wesley – I’m not sure what I will do with the road/footpath but I am going to change it.
Colin – thank Colin these are such fun to do.
fedet – yes CR is a lovely place with a wonderful climate
Laveder – all my work is from memory and imagination which works for me except when I do need a reference, like for a road.
gay – Yep, the laundry is for Blue

Katie Black Fine Art
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May 14, 2018 at 3:08 pm #621686
cliff.kachinske
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I’m really liking this. That blue is wonderful. Well done.

About that road, I think this painting has that same Cezanne-playing-with-perspective look that I noted in another work you posted here. That being so, the road is more of a design element than a road in a landscape. Linear perspective says it would widen as it approached, but I’m not sure that matters.

It seems to end rather abruptly near the bottom of the scene.

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May 15, 2018 at 2:24 pm #621675
Artchrispy
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Wow Katie, this is outstanding. The road looks good to me except maybe at the bottom where it starts to curve (in front of the big white house) it may be out of perspective (like a flush wall rather than a receding plane. Great texture, color, subject, and rendering!

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May 15, 2018 at 4:10 pm #621680
Katie Black
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Thanks Cliff and Arch…I’ve taken out the road and made it into a path…I will post manana

Katie Black Fine Art
"Life is far too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
May 16, 2018 at 1:56 pm #621681
Katie Black
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Hi, I have taken out the road, it is now a path. I have added another house in the top right-hand quadrant, and have also added a flash of colour to one of the roofs. I hope you like it.

Katie Black Fine Art
"Life is far too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
May 16, 2018 at 2:56 pm #621672
bluefish
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Hi Katie…..my eye goes to the red roof immediately, then to the curved path….if you are trying to emphasize the red roof, you have done so…but the curved path still draws my attention..if it were blacked out, you would still feel the roadway going back there, without being drawn there…

love it, but if it were mine, I’d do away with the curved path…just MHO…let’s see what other feedback you receive…:thumbsup:
May 16, 2018 at 5:23 pm #621689
Grampy
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Wonderfully done, I like this very much Katie.
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May 16, 2018 at 6:09 pm #621676
Artchrispy
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I like the changes. I could image the view from one of those mountain houses.

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