[Aquanet] November Critique - and - Changes to the Website

[patchapin at mindspring.com]

I love the play of colours in this painting, the warm/cool combining with 
light/shadow to produce exactly that wine-clear air feeling that presages 
the Autumn.  The brook is marvelous in particular, wending through the 
composition as it does, and the 'far' view is as wonderful as the close-up.

If it were mine (and lotsa luck, this is a tough landscape subject!), I'd 
add shadows on the undersides of the trees on the right upper side of the 
painting, so as to almost equalize the light/shadow/colour play on the left 
side of the brook.  Somehow, the lack of pigment there makes the near trees 
on that side turn into a sort of veil if you look too hard, and says here if 
you just rewet and dropped in some darks it would finish it off.  It is a 
minor thing, however, as for the rest, it is one of those wonderful 
paintings that 'takes you there'.  Autumn is an interesting concept, and I 
think you got it all, the light change as well as the colours coming on.

patch
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