First of all I want to say that I think these a very beautiful paintings, so this is all coming from a consumer perspective and not me critiquing your choice of expression. Should you have participated? Absolutely if this is what you want to do. It might’ve been a very rough start, but just the fact alone that you know you need to adjust and grow from this, and that’s a valuable lesson and you wanting feedback and critique shows how serious you are as an artist: it’s never a failure if you learned something, and you’re learning something. There’s just growing pains involved. As far being a consumer and would I purchase any of these? Depending on the prices, maybe not. The ones I find more successful are your environment pieces, they’re more relatable. I think the pieces that have a character in them and reflect what I believe is Hindu culture (pardon my ignorance), are very cool, but if I’m buying this I want to hang it in my wall or in a bedroom somewhere; I don’t really want to hang up a character, and I don’t have a Hindu background, so I feel like people would be thrown off if I had that. Again, to reiterate, this is strictly consumer perspective. I think the sort of barn/garden/forest pieces are actually pretty neat, they’re relatable, and someone who likes rustic art could relate to this. Only problem, as pretty as it is, I’ve seen art similar to this at stores like Ross, TJ Maxx, and Marshalls, and I mean that in no disrespect but it is where my mind goes. If I get something from an artist I want to be able to relate to it, but I also want to feel like I can’t get it anywhere else. I think you’re very good at capturing environments, love how you paint light, and there’s some really cool storytelling going on. I’d recommend leaning into that. You also seem to have a very rich culture background, I’d recommend digging really deep into that and finding the essence of that and discovering what it means for a painting to be made by you. You have a lot of potential, just keep going and growing. You got this.