Jaitea said:

A while back ago i posted a mock-up to try and break up the foreground & background to show the scene in layers of depth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMsBoHtS8Uc

J

Don't be shy ;) Let's see

Well, it's more simple than the original in a way and I think it works better. It gave me the will to play around. There's obviously a problem with this painting, but that's not a good reason enough to replace it with another one *imho*.

I love McQuarries' concept paintings notably for their somehow "naive" touch, and because there are a lot of things unsaid that your imagination will continue... But his matte paintings are always flat, mold and coldly executed.

Anyway... the air is pure, then not thick, the sun gives, I would then propose at least to temper light and shadows relations in another way, not mentionning the colors. Yet after 15 or 20 minutes it gives another result that I think more "realistic", but don't know if it matches with the whole sequence... (the shadows in the room would perhaps deserve to be darkened too, not sure).

Skipping the dark awful building on the left should do the trick...

... Now go back to work.