This painting from the apple orchard turned out okay

[bif]

https://markdomincreative.blogspot.com

Feedback and suggestions welcome!

[Karadeniz]

1. Those are GORGEOUS!

[3catwoman3]

2. It looks like a photograph!

(I intend that as a compliment.).

[MontanaMama]

3. Beautiful.

Thank you for sharing your work with us.

[Bayard]

4. Very nice!

If you are the same person who has posted new paintings previously, your shading and detail work has really improved.

[Zoonart]

5. That's really beautiful and accomplished, Mark.

[JDC]

6. This is good bif. I hope this doesn't come across wrong:

Your painting is getting a lot better. I looked at your page. this one, the Door / Knob, and the Clothes line on the porch are way better than your work I saw a while back. Again, I hope that does not sound like anything but a compliment. It is one. Very nice

[AllaN01Bear]

7. ohm myyy. dang , we have a talented lot here on du. lovely paintings .

[lunatica]

8. The apples are quite remarkable.

You chose the interesting perspective of looking up at the apples with the deep blue sky as the background. The solid cool blue of the sky as it’s seen when you look directly up. Everything looks crisp and sharp and perfectly ripened with the definitely sharp light source and shadows that you get on particularly clear days. A living still life.

Your bathroom door is an incredibly interesting depiction of objects being side lit at the time of day when the sun is casting the longest shadows. It’s the shadows that are the central focus, giving a wonderful casting of the objects’ profile which you don’t see directly. Again you explore light as revelatory of the structure of the doorknob and lock by using the shadows it creates.

And your Amish laundry day incorporates the architectural structure of the simple whitewashed house structure with its parallel lines broken up by the soft vegetation and the colorful dresses. As you often do in these historical buildings you tell a story here too. You aren’t just painting a house. You’re painting a story of who lives in that house as a inquisitively wondering on you part. The dresses are plain in structure and all alike but they’re colorful. Does one woman live there? Is it more than one woman? And you’re struck by the cleanliness, not only because the dresses have been washed, but because the house is white and clean and even the porch floors look shiny, reflecting the white of the walls. It’s very nice. Very clean and crisp. There is beauty and wonder in simplicity.

[Baked Potato]

9. Great color!

[handmade34]

10. that is very nice!

[Star-Thrower]

11. Did a good job.

Reminds me of growing up in PT. Breeze, Lake Ontario. We kids would ride our bikes through the apple orchards. I remember my mother baking apple pies, yum. So many apples. Can hardly find Rome Beautys and the 20 Ounce, which really was that large. Then there was a little apple tree way away from the orchards, kinda a rogue apple tree. Unnamed but the little apple tree had the best little apples. Most folks don't know that at least back then apple cider was made from the drops, those apples that fell to the ground and somewhat rottening was made into delicious cider. Myself, I used to purposely bang apples on a hard surface so it turned brown, bruised and tasted like cider, lol.

[LiberalLoner]

12. Wow I love it! Just about thought it was a photo,

Don’t think I’ve ever seen such a realistic painting of apples! Very impressive!
❤️👍👏

[bif]

13. Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement!

I hope my painting is improving. I paint almost every day and every painting is truly a learning experience, I've only been at it for about a year and a half., but relish almost every moment I spend in the studio. What a great way to spend ones time!