Walda Juhl

Tuscan Fields, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12" (30 x 30 cm)

Great that you played around with the design Walda—top marks for that, and the design itself along with the drawing is really good. The main thing I’d like to see changed is to create more space between the foreground and background. The dark tree in the foreground is pretty much the same value as the trees behind it. This has really flattened out the painting but your good drawing of the receding road saves it from being unreadable. To create more space you’d just need to lighten the darks in the hill a bit, seeing as you can’t make the tree much darker instead. Your distant mountains know where they are though which is good.