There are certain technical points to this piece that I quite like, and of course, some that I do not. The copper tea and stump pot came out as I hoped using a glazing technique to give more depth to the colors. I mixed the greens of the grass instead of using pure tube sap green pigment. There is a nice gradation to the greens, with spots of yellow, raw sienna and darker blue-greens flowing throughout the foreground. I also drew a half inch border around the paper before starting because I have always liked how that looks in other artist's work.
Compositionally, the rooster and the teapot/stump are too close together, I think there needed to be more space between them to draw the eye around the painting. And I definitely over worked the rooster too much, the details of his feathers are lost in the layers of dark colors.
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