Welsh Farm in Winter
First off, I'd like to say how much I'm enjoying this forum, so good to share a love of the landscape and watercolour.
I used to paint as a young man, then put it aside for family considerations, I have returned to it in retirement and it is now my first love ( After my wife, of course! ).
This is my last painting, it is of a 16th century farmhouse near my home in North Wales. It is from a sketch I made of it last February on a cold, but bright and breezy day. I have tried to portray this. I intended to return and paint it Plein air but the weather prevented that, so I used my sketches and photos. Please let me know what you think, as I'm not altogether happy with the composition.
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Yes, I think the plein air moments are getting ever less, after some deceptively warm spells in October. This is great, love the choppy sky and the receding hills around the house, these give a nice sense of distance. To get a greater sense of depth and get the eye to travel into the painting, certainly as Olly suggests breaking the foreground hedge would really help, I also think that having a main focal point in a painting helps to draw the eye in, in this case the cottage, so that would mean painting the elements in the peripheries of the picture more loosely.