Spring On The Mountain

I really love this piece. The detail is incredible.

There isn't any atmosphere, though. Even on a clear, windless day, the humidity in the air would add that depth of field. The colors would subtly and gradually get desaturated. I'd add a touch of Payne's grey with a little white to your colors to make that work. Without it, your mountains feel just as close to me as the foreground flower hill. It doesn't have to be a dramatic amount of paint to desaturate, just enough to push each layer back. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/>

The rule of thirds! The birds in the sky could be moved over to the left an inch, the clump of trees on the right in the mid-ground could be switched to the left. My eyes are dancing around. They're dancing around from detail to detail. As one of my Art Professors would always say, "With the rule of thirds, the sexiest painting is if you can make the eyes move in an 'S' shape curve along the canvas." When he first said this to me I spit-laughed at "sexy painting," but looking in hindsight he meant the music or flow. :3

Just those two things could really make this painting orchestral.

Very poetic as is. I love it. <3