Hi @Dennis Yeary ! I‘ll try to give a critique for your paintings. I‘m a university art teacher who works in a mix of figurative and abstraction (English is not my native tongue). In the first painting (lake and waterfall) I can see that you can achieve depth by introducing atmospheric perspective, well done! The midground of the painting has the darkest parts and therefore „jumps“ forward. The foreground mainly lacks strong contrasts and is a little „bland“ compared to the midground. It is a bit like a sandwich of „soft background - hard middle and soft foreground. Enhance contrast and visual interest in the foreground or build a „repoussoir“. The shape of the tree in the main focus could be more interesting. It lacks personality, the other trees all look nicer than the one in focus. In the last painting (seaside) the background and the cliffs in the middle work very well! Only the lower part seems to fall apart. You could either try to crop the canvas a bit, or work on the edges and shadows (also of the water!) in the lower part of the image. All in all, very well done! Keep creating and have a great time while you do so. See you around, R Kaufmann