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GreenPartyVoter

(73,092 posts) Mon Jan 18, 2021, 05:10 PM Jan 2021

Need help. Should I get darker in the water? Lighten the trees on the right? Play with the house [View all]

some more? It's a present for my Aunt. The lighthouse back home. She doesn't travel much any more and I'm sure she'd appreciate the memory.

This is watercolor. I do have gouache and pastels if I can't fix it any other way. (like the too dark trees on the right.)

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Need help. Should I get darker in the water? Lighten the trees on the right? Play with the house [View all] GreenPartyVoter Jan 2021 OP

The house dweller Jan 2021 #1

Nice work! A few comments. Pobeka Jan 2021 #2

The water LunaSea Jan 2021 #3

More shadows on house and a tad lighter trees on right. They sinkingfeeling Jan 2021 #4

I would darken the water closer to the viewer. Laelth Jan 2021 #5

Water, sky and pine trees are really tricky to paint in watercolor, and you've done them fierywoman Jan 2021 #6

few highlights handmade34 Jan 2021 #7

If you want things to pop, if you have a Micron pen, fine line, secondwind Jan 2021 #8

Not darker, but purer color. Deeper the closer to the viewer. marble falls Jan 2021 #9

I would start with a bit more detail on the rocks lunatica Jan 2021 #10

I like it the way it is. It GemDigger Jan 2021 #11