oil on canvas

First off welcome to NPN, Riccardo. I hope you post more images and comment on others as well. I like the abstract quality of this image along with the combination of warm and cool colors. My only suggestion would be a small crop from the top to get rid of those bright sections of sky.

Ed

Thank you for your suggestion and you time Ed.
I will post other images for sure, and I will also try to be useful with my opinions on others' images.
:)

I kind of like the white bits on the edge, Riccardo. It enhances the painterly effect implied in your title (although it looks more like watercolor than oil.)
Welcome to NPN, too.

Welcome to NPN Riccardo.

I like this image very much. Love the complementary colors and the contrasts between warm and cool. Lots of color interest in it for me. I'm on the fence about cropping out the sky but am leaning towards leaving it as is. Beautiful first post. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

pat

Welcome to NPN.

I love the feel of this image. It reminds me of a beautiful tapestry because of the lines created by the trees as though its folded. As such, for me it works better without the top bit of sky, but that is clearly just a person preference. Nicely done.

Riccardo, welcome to NPN! This is a wonderful abstract and yes, quite impressionistic. I too could see taking just a bit off the top to make the bright whites go away. Terrific first post.

Thank you all for your "welcome" and for your comments!
Following your suggestions, I cropped the white sky on the top-left corner and this is the result.

Actually it seems better this way :)

Riccardo, Welcome aboard. I like the impressionistic feel here. I would agree to a crop to remove the white top. Also I might lighten up the image to bring the colour out a bit more.

The repost is sweet with out the white on top Riccardo. Beautiful framing of the image, and love the warm and cool color play. Nicely seen and captured.

This is nice use of the blur technique. Tthe colors and placement balance beautifully.

An interesting thing happened when you cropped out the white. Visually, the image lost some contrast. It wasn't something you did in processing,

When viewing an image, the brain likes to see at least a bit of pure white and pure black in any image (the amount doesn't matter as long as it exists). If the brain does see it, it is satisfied that the image has a good contrast range. So by removing the white the image now looks slightly flat. If you don't mind the low key look, you can leave it as is. But the image looses its brightness in the yellow-orange areas and doesn't seem as lively.

To resolve that you can increase brightness in the yellows a bit and get the feel back.

Thank you all for your comments.
Dear Guy, I really appreciate your explanation on how the brain perceives colors and contrast: useful and "challenging".
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge .

Welcome to NPN Riccardo and a very striking first post. The repost looks great to me with great color and a wonderful abstract feel to it. Look forward to seeing more from you.

These types of shots are fun to do and you pulled it off nicely. I especially like the pastel colors.

I like the repost, Riccardo, since I, too, found the white spots distracting. However, I do agree with the suggestion to brighten the yellows just a bit.

Welcome to NPN! We hope to see more of your work, and read the comments you leave for others.

--P

Riccardo: Terrific final result. Frame filling fantastic.>=))>