HEY how's my painting coming along. It smells nice.

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>>3133559
What's the focus of this painting? Only the clouds are too bold and distracting from the landscape. My advice is too soften them, gray the blue slightly and work on more detail in the trees.

>>3133590
Thanks. Well it's oil paint so it should fade a bit greyer right?

>>3133590
The focus is the foretrees

>>3133600
True. But you'll notice when you look at the sky it gets bluer towards the vault. Make that the bluest part and gray out towards the horizon.

>>3133559
How much detail can you get in the road? That is something to plan for. It's a pain to paint every rock or pebble -- it may be easier to add a figure or vehicle.

Do you ever find yourself having to scrape down the impasto layer? It seems to have been applied prematurely.

Are you "drawing" mainly with a round or flat brush? Will you tone down the RBGY quality? How many varieties of green have you mixed?

>>3133600
You could mix a transparent grey in oils to cover that Royal blue sky.

In >>3133590
You wouldn't get the sage grey colour automatically, you'd have to plan for it. A Viridian or Veronese won't become an Ivy, Pear, or Lime overnight. Yours looks on track for something interesting however, very good work!

>>3133609
This is like my third oil painting but no haven't had to scrape. Just let it sit for like a week

>>3133614
Thanks but it think it's too late now. I sort of like the neon blue
>>3133609
I'm not great at figure painting yet. The path is pretty much dirt so I guess I'll just texture it
>>3133606
Thanks

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>>3133601
Ok, the problem there is that you have the road/track which draws the eye out of the picture. Generally any such feature in a landscape painting automatically becomes the focus. Study at the works of a genius like Isaac Levitan and his compositions using roads. Maybe in this painting the track should become the focus and you should add more detail there. Good start though.

>>3133559
Figure where the light is coming from and stick with that notion.