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Well-enough was not left alone. I went too far on the foreground tree and robbed it of the visual power it had in Version 3. Now it's a big green mess. I should have stayed with sparse and dark, and just done a few slightly-lighter patches to cover the trunk and limbs a bit. That would have worked. This went too far and essentially ruined it.

That's why we do experiments. We learn what works and what does not by trial and error. Mistakes can be better teachers than successes. With a success, you learn your lesson by duplicating the results because that's what worked. With a failure, you learn your lesson by doing something different. You've eliminated one mistake, and now you're free to try something new.

On the plus side, it still looks better than Versions 1 or 2. There are elements in it that I still think worked - basically, the left side of the painting is still good. This is my second-ever attempt at a landscape painting, and it's a marked improvement over the first one ( [link] )

Description
Well-enough was not left alone. I went too far on the foreground tree and robbed it of the visual power it had in Version 3. Now it's a big green mess. I should have stayed with sparse and dark, and just done a few slightly-lighter patches to cover the trunk and limbs a bit. That would have worked. This went too far and essentially ruined it.

That's why we do experiments. We learn what works and what does not by trial and error. Mistakes can be better teachers than successes. With a success, you learn your lesson by duplicating the results because that's what worked. With a failure, you learn your lesson by doing something different. You've eliminated one mistake, and now you're free to try something new.

On the plus side, it still looks better than Versions 1 or 2. There are elements in it that I still think worked - basically, the left side of the painting is still good. This is my second-ever attempt at a landscape painting, and it's a marked improvement over the first one ( [link] )