Shoman Mohamed

Country Road, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16" (41 x 41 cm)

A nice colourful piece, Shoman. I can see you’re a very careful person from your crisp edges down to your stylish signature—much like I started out until I got all painterly, which just takes brush miles. A lot of things are working well here from your punchy colour contrasted with the grayed backdrop, the precise drawing and the attention to tonal values. Some observations...the crisp edge where the cast shadow on the drive meets the grass could be more naturally portrayed by darkening the grass there somewhat and making the edge less regular.

A little more textured paint in the foreground and more attention to defining individual clumps would add more realism and depth to the whole foreground. Don’t make the roof gutter line bend just behind the big pole because it makes us believe the pole is somehow influencing the shape of the building. The edges of your orange building are swelling outward slightly, which very subtly indicates health and ripeness to us. Better on a decrepit building to bow the edges slightly inward. That should keep you busy. Well done.