Leah's Canal Paintings updated

 Here is Leah's original start to her painting of a canal with trees.











Here is her reference photo.

 This is Leah's finished piece after some feedback. Notice that she did a nice job of indicating the surface of the water in the reflections. The reflections of the trees may shortened as the reflection of the rocks are as in the photo. I like the color of the rocks in the shadow.







This is a gouache painting Leah did as another study. I like the warm rocks though they may be a tad too warm. I've indicated that the slope of the rocks indicated by the vertical lines is a little too steep. The purple lines show the slope closer to the photo.

 Here is a quick sketch I sent to Leah to illustrate how the trees diminish in size but how they overlap each other more as they recede in perspective.

2. Here, though my color is weak, I've indicated more articulated stones. If the objects above the water are a little tighter, the difference between them and the looser and wavy reflection sells the illusion.
1. Showing how the trees actually overlap.
3. A nice job down here  reflecting the stones on the disturbed plane of the water. I really like feel of the painting of the reflected trees however, as noted above, we might actually see less of them in the reflection. The reflected trees would also diminish in scale as they recede.

I love how Leah keeps exploring and working on this. I'm looking forward to seeing the next iteration.