Though it is a beautiful painting, I feel this particular work is off balance. The right side is heavy with objects where as the left side has a beautiful fog like feel. It’s almost a mystery to what is beyond the fog. The birds lie almost center to the canvas and there is nothing to the left. In my opinion I would like to see a little more of the background to hold the balance.

This is a great painting showing wonderful softness in the background and harder sharper quality in the foreground. The haziness and light in the background sets the mountains farther in the back and the darker subjects in the foreground bring the painting to a 3-Dimensional design. The river is winding it’s way to the back which leads the viewer’s eye.

This image is similar to the top. I just wanted to show the relationship to background (soft, atmospheric) to the darker hard foreground.

This is a good example of balance. The waterfall is balanced out with the tree on the left. The waterfall and tree are about center page but the waterfall goes down while the tree extends up on the canvas. There is a path that separates the two and gives the painting a break-up of color and value.