In this piece I used five colors. This is an imaginary scene done in acrylic. There is no source image. (5 years and 3250 days ago)
Good overall composition, the eye is nicely led across the painting.
Your biggest problem is one of being consistent in your painting.
The tree trunks suddenly get very thin from thick, and you over did the above ground roots a bit too much.
Your coloring is also inconsistent. This is most noticeable in the sky. Generally, the sky is slighly darker at the top, getting a little lighter as you get nearer the earth. Your sky has like a "light colored halo" around the picture.
This brings up the biggest consistency problem, the water reflection. Your sky is darker and bluer, with clouds that the sky doesn't show, while your trees are LIGHTER in the water reflection. .
You also have the edges of the water a bit too perfect, more like a swimming pool or a puddle after a rain. If you study some photos of landscapes, you will see that nature is seldom quite so regularly shaped and spaced.
Here is an example to show you - Notice the coloring of the sky and the trees, and along the edges of the water:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1076964
It's a good start, you will get better the more you practice.
Very nice composition, but the tree branches are too symmetrical on the left, like the teeth on a comb. You need to paint some branches in the middle of the tree facing the viewer. Branches need to overlap and grow from different directions, not just the sides.
Here is a tutorial about painting pine trees you may find helpful:
http://watercolorworksart.blogspot.com/2008/03/painting-pine-tree.html
nice painting author...GL
FANTASTIC IMAGINATION author! I like your color selections as well. Keep them coming....
Thnaks for your comments...wish I had more time to do more pieces...
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