I think the linear perspective has gotten “off” somewhere… finding THAT under all this color is going to be like finding a needle in a haystack.

The place you mentioned is one of 3 that I notice. I also think that fixing one might help fix the other. I feel like the poppy field is on different drawing planes, the left side being too high.

There’s not enough value change in the field. The whole bottom part is quite dark compared to the sky. Some lighter and brighter greens in the field may help, as well as lowering the intensity of the flowers in front of the far field.

Darkening the sky is a possibility, but I like how the sky turned out and am reluctant to change it.

I think the buildings are still too big, and the tree to the far left should be bigger. I don’t like the center tree in the far field. Move it or get rid of it altogether.

If I did (do?) this one again, I was thinking an orange-y colored sky might be interesting. Scale down the other elements. Dots for poppies, lines for buildings, and a MUCH smaller cypress.

As it is, neither the sky nor the field has any real dominance. A good crop before framing will fix that. I’ll either crop the poppies and focus on the sky, or crop the sky and focus on the poppies.

I’ll also be able to buy a smaller (and less costly) frame.

I appreciate your sharing this list - I usually get fed up with working on something, so that once it’s done, I don’t have the patience to evaluate it - I just want to forget about it for a while!

Could one of the “visual cliffs” on this be the line where the poppies meet the background field? For me, the complimentary colors meeting in a line create some visual discord. Seems to bring that line out, although it should be more distant. I am curious how to solve a problem like that! I suppose desaturating it might help, but that’d make it less red and poppy-ish.

Do you know what you’d do differently if you did it again?