Christina Maassen

Great painting, Christina. Good to see you defined the big shadow and light shapes with very accurate colour matching. It’s perhaps a little dark in the foreground water where I’d be expecting to see a little more sky reflection and by contrast that would define the darker reflection of the boat a little better. On the other hand the dark water really makes the yellow boat pop! Note that the shadow sides of the waves should be getting a little lighter and bluer as they recede—at the moment they’re catching eye a bit. Curving the bottom of the bow a little where it touches the water will help show the curve of the boat—it looks a little flat without that tiny curve. These are all small things. Overall a great effort.