/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1942183

Don't give up on it just yet, take a break and come back to it after a day - or three, if you can manage. I think you know that there's an overall incoherence with the entire piece; and no matter how much fun it is to just play with shapes and colors until you find something lovely you do need to take a moment to breathe and think about where you're going. When you find that lovely arrangement the piece will tell you where it wants to go, but you won't be able to hear it if all you do is paint, paint, paint.

On top of that, you have a darling area which is hurting your piece terribly. You should be proud of it, but it serves no purpose aside from being really pretty. It's the type of thing people love to see when you've invited them to pore over every inch of your piece, but by itself it's detrimental.

It'd be very easy to salvage the piece, though - take some time off and instead do some 3 value thumbnails of a similar subject matter, in a similar value range. Then come back, cut and crop the piece like a madman, and have something worth the effort you've put in. Or, you can just crop the mountains and make a piece out of that - I'd recommend this piece by Homer for some inspiration if you do.