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starfish2000 [2017-08-23 19:45:08 +0000 UTC]

Great work! It's really beautiful!!

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angelahedderick [2017-08-10 13:29:47 +0000 UTC]

Love the backlit leaves, you captured the different tones of green beautifully. I'm seeing the white edges around things as part of the sun-glow effect. It's nice that the leaves are imperfect, bug-bitten, and natural looking. If I were going to adjust anything, it would be to make his eye black like the inside of the beak. 

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tolosati [2017-04-01 15:50:57 +0000 UTC]

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Peace-In-Violence [2017-02-23 02:26:10 +0000 UTC]

So, after examining this piece for a little while, I can't find too much wrong with it. The  colors and textures are fantastic and everything feels very natural; all in all, its a very competent piece. I really only have one qualm and one question. Let's start with the question; everything in the foreground appears to be outlined with white, is this intentional? If not, I suggest removing them because they might confuse the lights and shadows of the piece. Guessing from simple observation, I'd say you painted the foreground and then painted in the background and if that's the case I'd flip the process, painting the back ground first and follow with the foreground. If the white lines are intentional, just ignore me.
Now my one qualm with the piece is your placement of the main focus (I'm assuming its the bird). People read from left to right, so the moment they look at the picture they see its focus. That's it, the story is fully told before anyone reach the half way point. You can literally cut 2/3 off the right side of the picture and not change anything.  Compositionally this is easily fixed, in practice its less easy. We're aspiring artists, however, and we live for pain. 
Now composition is one of the few areas I feel competent in so please give my thoughts serious consideration before dismissing them. First I'd flip the bird and shift her to the opposite side of the painting, next I'd increase the size of the top right branch so it reaches just a little past the center of the painting  (be careful not to make it large than your primary branch as that'd steal attention). Finally, I'd completely erase the branch on the top left. This is to add some contrast to the other corners which all have branches either entering or leaving through them. If you implement these changes, this is what I believe will happen.  People will look at the piece and their eyes with naturally follow the large branch to where it leads up into the bird. From there, gazes will travel up the bird and then follow its eyes along the second branch. Hopefully, this second branch will carry them back across the picture and smoothly guide them out of it. We need this second branch to cross the midway point or viewers might get lost on the last leg of journey and find themselves wandering around in the middle of the picture without direction.
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you. 

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AmbergrisElement [2017-02-22 16:35:58 +0000 UTC]

Those colours and textures are beatiful, amazing work!

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kiborgalexic [2017-02-22 15:06:47 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!!!   

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mockingbirdontree [2017-02-18 18:56:55 +0000 UTC]

wow, gorgeous painting.Great image.             

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