[Aquanet] October critique

[pat davis]

Dear Anonymous Artist,

First off, many thanks for being brave enough to submit a painting for 
critique. If you're like me, paintings can be very personal and opening 
oneself to critique can sometimes be like appearing naked in front of 
others and having them critique that. (In my case, a potential source of 
nightmares! Adonis, I ain't)

You stated that you wanted to be more free with your watercolour, and in 
this I think you have succeeded admirably. In addition, you have 
achieved good colour unity altho perhaps the colours could be more 
balanced across the piece (Blue dominates in upper left/red and brown, 
in lower right) I also very much like the way you've handled the paint; 
that is, the application is loose and gives a feeling of action and 
flow. Bravo!

Regarding perspective, I know little about bull-fighting, but to me it 
appears that the matador is seen a bit from above while the bull is seen 
from straight on. I'm not sure how much matadors lean in bullfighting, 
so this could be quite accurate and I'm out to lunch... again.

Well done overall!

cheers
pat