Headed Out, Brock

Very well done, I think your use of warm and cool colors mixes nicely giving it a wonderful peaceful feeling. your painting technique adds to the emotional impact because of the way it moves and the additional texture it provides to the texture created by the colors. The sky is absolutely wonderful, the high contrast between the dark rich blue and the yellow sail just helps to pull the eyes down, then you have the softer yellows, browns and greens that make up the mountain sides contrasting against the blue sky which also help pull the eyes down and then to the left through your use of line direction. Then the way the water was done is wonderful, texture is built up so nicely with the contrasting dark blues and light blues, and the use of rusty reds and oranges. This painting looks almost as if it was done with a pallet knife, if so you did absolutely amazing and if not, wow is all I can say, you did such a wonderful job creating the textures.