Laura Xu

Tuscany Homes, oil on board, 11 x 14" (28 x 36 cm)

Nice work Laura! You’ve managed to get a real impressionist look to this painting with your bold brushwork and broken colour, especially in the road and the sky. It’s a strong design with large simple shapes though I’d like to see the edges of the road broken up more to add to the rustic charm of the place. The flower edging is a nice touch, and I especially like the shape of your large tree on the left—really nice and varied with just enough detail to express the character of the tree. Your major hills are copying each other—always an easy trap to fall into. The drawing of the central barn is good, but the other is a little off because the apex of the roof is too far to the right. Also you could have made the dark side of that building a touch darker to help with the form. Overall a really nice result with just a few things to tweak.