Susan's Brown barn

Susan has taken another pass at this brown barn. I like how she has explored several crops and approaches to painting it. I'm really taken by the color of the barn and I like how the subtly reddish brown works so well with her sophisticated greens in the trees and field.

You can see from Susan's photo the choices she's made in her painting. A really nice job.

 I have only a few comments for Susan to consider:

1. In the original there is kind of a yellow halo in the sky around the tops of the trees. If it's not intended Susan can clean that up with one more pass with the sky color.

2. There is one primary thing about this composition that that I'm a little torn about. As successful as this painting is, I kind of get pulled in two directions, to the barn, and up the road. Here, I've brought the angle of the underside of the tree down a little to keep our eye from pulling up the road so much.

3. I see in the photo that there is a sway in the ridgeline of the barn. I've tried to indicate how the general line of the roof might go downward while maintaining the sag.

And now one from the take it or leave it department.

Here I've done a quick version with the other minor suggestions from above and added a major compositional option for Susan to consider. It makes it a different painting but I feel that it might be a way to focus on the barn.

Susan has done such a great job painting the barn and trees that it might be nice to make it the undisputed star of the show.

Either way, It a beautifully painting piece Susan.