A View of the Rocky Mountains from the Plains...

[MaloCS]

Just thought I'd share.

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[Rascar Capac]

this thing is beggin for a character, object, anything...Kind of like the curtains open, there's the spotlite - and theres no-one there.

I would tone down the rays of lite - maybe a bit too much.

Whats that thing on the bottom left? logo?

[Isric]

having grown up in the plains below the rockies, i'd want to see something a bit more...intense.

even on a boring day the western view is breathtaking. you could probably push the clouds further, give the plains depth (show the vast expanse leading into the foothills).

the one comment that a lot of people who visit is just how damn big it all is. this shitty paintover is just to show more of the idea of vast, receeding countryside (sorry, painted from memory)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6827/rockiespe5.jpg

[DFrey666]

You need to have at least three areas of tone from dark, middle and light. A good 2/3rd's of the piece is the same tone. Squint at it. The sides are same tone and the middle third is the lightest. More range. Think Ansel Adams. Look him up.

Stay Hungry

[Jason Manley]

nice work isric. you answered him with the paintover better than I would have with my words.

[Mungus]

Nicely painted background, I agree that its entirely without subject, as a landscape its not detailed enough for more than a casual glance, -
you should put something in the foreground.

Try something different and unexpected

Maybe you'd like to accept the Mozzy challenge....

I can see a dust devil (looks like a small twister) conjuring up a red dusty storm just beyond the fence, picking and whirling around a whole team of junior league baseballers (maybe replace the fence with a baseball diamond)

Then you'd get the full midwest flavours coming through.....

....Or a group of wild horses thundering from right to left beneath a supersonic meteorite travelling in the same direction parallel to the floor about 80 ft above their heads

[silvestri99]

Looks good but saying it again...look at developing a "middleground" to guide the eye to the background. Right now the grasses and mountians are seperated to much and don't seem connected...keep work'in!!

[chaosrocks]

two things, I know ir really looks like that I was there last summer. but as a landscape its trite, It needs something to make it different from every other pretty Picture of Kansas

two -- a good way to check your value range is throw the whole thing in grayscale and pull up image adjust..... or as the master said..squint, I take off my glasses and work value before color

chaos