Help! Constructive criticism please
Hello all, I have been working on this acrylic painting for a while and have gotten stuck. I am happy with its progress so far, but don't feel like it's finished and that it looks a little amaturish at the moment. I'm not sure what it needs to complete it. Any suggestions?
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Permalink Reply by Bente Røyseth Hestholm on -
Lovely colours Bronwyn and I like the textures on the shore. I recognized the lightning too and the brown lines make me think of heavy rain... As to the horizon line I thing you should make the water darker where it meets the sky and maybe lighten it up more nearer the shore.I have a beach picture I can upload on my page you can look at if you want. Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by Bronwyn Palmer on -
That would be great Bente! Thank you everyone for your ideas. Hopefully this week I will have time to tackle it.
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Permalink Reply by Tee Thompson on -
I see the lightening strike and while it's cool.. it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the painting. It's all I can see and I'm left wondering where the rest of the storm is. Make some seriously heavy clouds.. darks.. black and a green ugly angry sky to go with that. Make it feel like it's pressing you down into the wet sand and you can't breathe for seeing those clouds.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Fellows on -
I thought that you had captured the look and feel of the ocean lightening strike beautifully, on a captivating ocean landscape in soft twilight lighting. The softly difused horizon speaks of the closing of the day as the light fades and such lightning storms so often occur. I do agree with the earlier comment that the "flash " could be longer making a slightly more dramatic impact but as this is a work in progress I just wanted to say that you have made a wonderful start and it will be interesting to see the final outcome.
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Permalink Reply by Danielle Evans on -
I like the lightning. Yes a top and bottom would be good. I don't have a problem with the slash marks. They will probalby look different anyway if you darken the top. As for the bottom, I like it but maybe darken the bottom half or two thirds of the brown with something shiny to match the blue part. I assume the brown is matt and the top satin finish? Not sure how much detail is required, I like the abstract feel of this.
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Permalink Reply by 1nua4ty3vjjlq on -
maybe a focal point? not overwhelming so you lose the wonderful color-meld you've created, or maybe some text up one side of a poem relevant to the scene. Good luck. It's great so far.
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