Texan landscape #1. Study after Julian Onderdonk.

Good composition and perspective . I love these trees. Great work again!

Great depth in this painting, so well thought out Sunnylady!
Concerning the tree, could it be that you used the wrong brush? And splattered iso tapping?

@Jin7: thank you very much for your support and highlights about composition and perspective. I really appreciate it.

@Voy Kay: Thank you very much for your kind support. Yes, i am learning the values and cold/warm color effects to create the depth in the painting.

This is in fact exercise I do during the landscape course I am taking now. If I did it on my own I'd use BR tapping technique for the trees. However the exercise says to do brush strokes with various angles and pressures on the brush and to start with under painting with solvent thinned paint. I used synthetic filbert brushes for almost everything here. Blueness of the sky only was BR 1 inch brush.

Recently I also find that for paintings with under painting synthetic brushes work better for me and honestly my hog bristles brushes are totally not the best as they are too stiff.

I think tree is small for this trunk and has to be taller... or wider...
May be too much highlight on the right side of the big tree?
What else catches attention here as something wrongly done?

Anyway I am looking to hear more feedback as I am puzzled here.

Very nice,Great work!

Thanks Patoex!

I love the atmospheric distance you achieved in the hills. Also, the contrasting light & shadow in the foreground is very effective. Great work!

Thanks Dracula. I am happy that idea of shadow/light turned to be successful. What do you think is totally off? I cannot figure it out and need an advice.

@Dracula: by the way this is Texas. As I understood Austin/SanAntonio area. It may not look like it in my execution but original author did it quite recognizable.

The title is perfect for this painting. I love it. It reminds me of walking down a roadway in the country. Very nicely done.

Thank you LJM!

@SunnyLady - To answer your question: Nothing looks particularly off to me, in your painting. I think experimenting with angled landmasses along the horizon can create some disorienting effects, but this reads in a naturalistic way to me. Without having seen the original you're painting after, I'd say the only thing I would do differently is inject a little more detail in the very close foreground to push everything else back, but I tend to overdo it, so take that advice with a grain of salt.

Also, I should add, it looks very much like Texas Hill Country in early summer; I thought so before you even mentioned it! I had been planning a trip out there this spring to get some inspiration and shoot some photos for reference, but it will have to wait until later I suppose. Have you been to the Hill Country?

I think it's excellent!

Froggie, thanks!

Dracula, thanks a lot for the feedback. I appreciate it a lot!
Let me share what I fixed as part of my learning curve.
My instructor said to correct far away hills and make them lighter through glazing, also to kill contrast in the sky especially in the clouds near horizon.
Tree here - this is where I was struggling and while it was wet I could not add more dark to separate clusters of brunches. I added more darks and intermediate there when it dried a bit without suffering that lights were mixing with darks and messing them up.
Now about details in the front - you are so right. I did not do enough considering how big is the canvas. I fixed it a bit by adding more grass and adding bunches in the bushes and adding more ochre and fixing the bush on the left by adding more shadows.
Also I fixed the downhill area to make it lighter and moved the road more to the left as it was in my sketch.

We traveled a bit around Texas - we went do Dallas-Fort Worth to the North and Fredericksburg to the west and Big Bend National Park as the furthest destination so far in Texas. These are all wonderful destinations! I am sure you will get a lot of inspiration in Hill county!

This is beatiful.