Great pic David, the trees are a bit ‘ lollipop, like but it’s a great effort and I’m sure it’s a change from all those walls you’ve been doing recently.

Stormy sky and a red roof to compliment the greens would have been the way I would have gone just to be different.

A cheap alternative would be to change the bulb in your existing lamp with a daylight bulb. Blue in colour they give off a spectrum that’s pretty close to real daylight.

Great start. Softening some of the cloud edges would have helped but overall you should be delighted.

Wouldn’t say any scene couldn’t be attempted if planned properly and oils particularly lend themselves to very loose paintings. Check out British Impressionist Society on FB. You’ll never know unless you give it a try.

That’s a terrific view. You’ve seemed to have mastered these scenes.

Lovely loose architectural sketch.

Lemon yellow can be transparent so will show up less. You could use yellow ochre which tends to be much more opaque or simply change the colour to a darker one.

Terrific painting.

A mixed colour.

That’s a great effort for your first. Stuff to work on as expected but we all still do that. You should be very happy.

Really nice this one Fiona.

If you can get it where you are maybe you could try Inktense. Blocks of water soluble ink that would suit your style perfectly. They’ve also just brought out a pan set that looks like a watercolour set for ease of use.

Really interesting effects Martin.

Don’t think it needs a background really. Looking at the wall you’ve got the light coming from the right so maybe shadow under the hat rims and on the clothes under the arm of the left hand man would help? Looks good though.