OK, so I lied

Sorry this is the same image folks, but after recieving several very constructive critiques of this painting I thought it was worth the effort to try to fix it.

 

A common theme among those of you that took the time to give me your toughts ( and I thank you for that ) was the need to push the background back. I think Terry Miura summed it up best for me. Here's just an excerpt from his critique....

"First of all, I think you need to decide on what your focus is. There are three things I see that

may have caught your eye; the light coming through the trees giving you bright colors, the tree

trunks' rhythmic shapes, and the play of light and shadow on the ground. And it looks like you

wanted to show all three 'concepts'. but what happens is that they compete with one another for

attention, and you start to lose focus. A painting like this ought to have only one star, not three

co-stars."

 

Some of you (Laura) suggested using a glaze to push the house in the background back some more.

 

I have been traveling for a bout a week, pondering all of this as I drove up and down the East coast. I got home this afternoon and had to try what all of you suggested. I think it helped the piece in a big way. I have tried to make the light on the ground the 'star' and the rest the supporting cast. If I do any more to this I'm afraid I will over work it, so I just need to tstart the next one.

 

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts.

 

Done