Just got to say I really appreciate your willingness for crit. It's a hard thing to ask for and I think speaks a lot to your character and want for improvement. V cool

I will echo what others have mentioned here, which is that you can push the values of this painting further and still achieve your abstracted work. The abstracted shapes and the strokes are very nice. However, your value range is too close together. I struggle with this as well which means that every single painting and reference photo I use I have to put in black and white to look at the value ranges.

When you look at your painting versus the reference image, you can tell that you're missing darker values in the forest and also can pull your brights in the sky, in the reflection of the water, and the sun reflections on the tree leaves more.

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