Artist Spotlite – June Smith

Artist: June Smith

Location: Lucan Ontario

Title: “Peace”

Dimensions: 8×10

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Comments From the Artist: I love nature and this is where I find inner contentment. I am now retired and decided to make cards and prints of my paintings I welcome your comments as I really want to learn more. Thank you for taking time to review my work.

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Comments

16 Comments on "Artist Spotlite – June Smith"

Wayne Cooper on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 6:04 pm

Beautiful work….the warm feeling of the late-day sun is very powerful.
I can’t explain why but I think the painting would be more effective if the weed-bed low centre offshore were gone.
I’m not sure but i think it bothers the eye flow around the painting but maybe it’s just me.
Lovely work….looks much like the countryside up here.
Cheers from Canada North

Juliet on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 8:05 pm

Loved the colours of this painting. In my mind’s eye I could image a lone wolf in the foreground, head raised, jaws open in a cry to the wilderness.

Valerie Sasaki on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 9:08 pm

Beautiful colors, very serene. I would hang it in my home. Great work.

carolyn Bishop on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 9:14 pm

Beautiful work, June, especially the foreground! Might be better if the background horizon was level, instead of dipping on the left.

Michael on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 10:04 pm

Hi June, I’m new here and new to painting. I wish I had some good advice for you. I love your painting, the color is awesome please keep up the good work.

John on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 11:24 pm

I like the colors also. Very well done.

Lynn Marlowe on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 11:58 pm

Different with the warm colors. I feel you need something in the middle there (duck?) as a focal point. Just opinion. Like it.

Jayne Cummins on Sun, 19th Oct 2008 12:27 am

Hi June
I love the overall feel to the painting – the sky and water is well done. My only criticism is that when painting land with water in front – it looks best and more realistic if the line is horizontal. Also if the water is still – wouldn’t there be a reflection of the land on the water too – not just the tree sticks?
The trees in the foreground and the rocks are really good.
Well done.
Jayne

(RAMBO) Teresa Da Ponte on Sun, 19th Oct 2008 11:38 am

Hi June, we love the colours, such a beautiful painting reminds me of the Group of Seven artist’s which is a very positive thing. I don’t know anything about art so no advice from me. I just know when I love something and I definetely love this piece and I could just stare at it forever. Good luck and keep up the great work.

Ingrid on Sun, 19th Oct 2008 8:05 pm

Hi June,

The title of this painting certainly conveys the feeling that you have captured. It is PEACEFUL and your use of the warm color to capture that late afternoon glow is very well done!

I would like to make a few suggestions. For more drama in a painting, it is best to place the horizon line either above or below the mid point of your canvas. I feel that by lowering the horizon line to give us more of the sky “shape” in your painting, would provide the viewer with a nice background shape to show off the textures you used in those foreground tree shapes. Also by lowering the horizon you would not have all of that middle “water area” in your painting. It would be a narrower more interesting shape of water.

The shapes in the foreground of your painting don’t bother me, but it is the use of white on these shapes that does not seem to go with the rest of your warm tonal painting. If those white shapes would be a warmer tone (incorporating some of that warm color used elsewhere in your painting into the white shapes) the painting would feel more connected. Sometimes as artists we need to substitute those things that nature has given for things that will make for a better painting. I am not sure if the white shapes are snow, but warming up these shapes to be a part of the overall warm tone of the painting would not draw attention to these shapes but connect them to the whole.

Thank you for sharing your work with all of us. Keep practicing and keep painting!

Ingrid

Soroya on Mon, 20th Oct 2008 1:17 pm

I love the soft pastel look and the warmth you painting brings the foreground of white is the only thing that I would mix in a bit more grays so that the eye is not distracted from the overall beauty of the rest of the piece. But in truth even as it is I think it is a lovely painting
Thanks for sharing, God bless

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June Smith on Wed, 22nd Oct 2008 1:42 pm

Thank you very much for taking the time to look at my painting
I really appreciate all the remarks and the constructive suggestions I received
I was really nervous about sending this in
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I am currently taking an ink and watercolor course here and I am enjoying it
I am looking forward to seeing the future artwork from the group
This is a great way to learn new ideas
Thank you Ralph for all your work in creating this website
Very Sincerely
June Smith

frank k on Fri, 23rd Jan 2009 4:45 am