I think you’re doing a really good job of getting the overall sense of light and color in your scenes. On the first one, you’ve got that nice sunset light, so you want to make sure that it feels like it’s hitting the ground. You’ve got lots of spots of light, but I think you want to have a single (or couple) clearer big areas that are being hit by the light, and then you can cut out of that some to make a few shadows. Similarly, your trees look like lots and lots of individual leaves being painted. It usually works better to establish big shapes of leaf clusters first. And then in that add some big shadow shapes. And then you can start adding more of the texture and individual leaves. That helps clarity and can reduce some of the kind of see-through leaves. On your paintings, a lot of your brushstrokes are either really soft or really hard/linelike. So finding some more in between strokes could help. You could maybe also try a textured brush. I really like the sense of light and depth you’re getting on your second painting and the textures you have going on. You’ve got some nice colors and color variation. You’re doing good, good luck with it.

Wow these are really cool. Nice work and great job creating a varied palette. I only have a few comments for you, in the first painting, the beams of light seem to unify off of the sun image and aren’t quite straight — this is fine actually if you want them to read as something OTHER than beams of light that we have seen and have experience with, for example if you want them to read as something mysterious, then i would say accent their movement a bit more so that we see the bend or distortion a bit more. If that is not your intention, then tighten them up on the sun and straighten them out so they read as direct beams coming from the sun. My second comment is about the second painting. I like it and think you did some really nice things. I think you could decrease the value range of the rock in the back of the canyon to push it even further back in space and build atmosphere. Additionally, I would take the straight line of the shadow that is running in the near foreground and vary it — that shadow is cast by part of the canyon or an object and it most likely won’t be straight, and it is falling on rocks and grass and other objects on the canyon floor which will give it variation as well, so think of it as a cast shadow falling on interesting forms and give it some interest. My last comment is about the last three paintings, the last two in particular. I like the color and the gestural marks of the light glowing sweeps of movement, but I wonder if they are too much the same size? In the third painting could they diminish as they recede toward the background? Or in the fourth painting could they appear differently as they move through the space of the river bed? In the fifth painting I wonder if they couldn’t wrap the tree or come towards us the viewer and become more dimensional? If not, then not, but I didn’t want you to leave something on the table if it was part of the story you are trying to tell. These are all really interesting and beautiful images and I enjoy seeing them. Keep working! Awesome!