My landscape paintings

[tcsaunders]

Let me know what you think. You can see them at [url]myspace.com/tonysaundersart[/url]

This is my tribute to an English landscape painting with their huge, luminous skies.
"Everything and the sky above"

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[tcsaunders]

This one is called " Monumental" I always loved the western painters like Albert Bierstadt.

[tcsaunders]

This one is " Hear myself think"
Drawn from memory of a small stream behind my moms old home in Georgia. I would go there to think and be alone and to catch an occasional brown trout. I did it in part because I dislike the color green and I wanted to do a painting where the dominant color was green.

[crazi_ivan]

very well done, excellent use of traditional media. I wish I could give lively feedback, but at this time im not very far with using colour and the such. Compositionally though I find that Monumental suddenly changes from greeny yellow to peachy blue too fast in the upper right. Maybe its what you wanted, i dont know, but it is well painted none-the-less

My attention is drawn first off in the mist foreground ( the river and trees area) and then to the large center mist. Thirdly it draws it to the multi-coloured mountain range. Excellent and well thought out and carried out, keep it up man

[tcsaunders]

Thanks Ivan! The actual painting in Monumental doesn't have quite as much yellow. I took several pics and for some reason they all had that yellow in them. The same with the "everything..." pic. The red spot in the sky is a much more subtle pinkish on the painting.

Your feedback is quite lively and I really appreciate it.

BTW,I think the title "monumental "sounds a little obnoxious, but it was actually named jokingly referring to the monumental headache it gave me working it out.

I read an interview with the great wildlife artist Robert Bateman. He said his paintings are something he has to fight through and a lot of times it seems like the painting will be a disaster and he keeps fighting and it works though. I really needed to hear a pro say that because I had began to think it was just me.