My first original

I had taken a photo of haystack rock at Pacific City many years ago. The photo has hung in my house for more years than I want to think about. So with a leap, I jumped in and tried to pain the image in the photo. Some have told me that they love it. I think they love me and love the fact that I am trying to paint. I was never satisfied with it but couldn't figure out how to fix it.

Here are my two originals.

A month or so later, I began to see the errors.

 According to Rod Moore, there are a few very common mistakes a new painter makes.

Start with too much color in the sky-- Check


Use too much color, too saturated to be specific -- Check

Failure to show depth. (Warm saturated colors in the foreground and increasingly grayed out less saturated color in the back ground) Failure to put the correct hues, and values in the correct place confuses the eye. I does not make visual sense. --- CHECK

I will re paint this scene within the next month or so and post the result. I am sure it will be much better.