What do you think of the art?

Bob Ross would be proud

He genuinely would and that brings me so much joy. What a happy little accident
- Well you're clearly doing your part to give joy to others. Only fitting you get some reciprocation

Smoking weed and watching deep space 9 💪

That sounds so nice… just to switch off
- That's the goal lol be in my own little world

The tree by the water's edge that's angled over adds a sense of realism to the painting for me. Well done!

Thank you. I’m alright at painting trees

I really like the brushwork on for the mountains! The direction of the light source is a little confusing to me, but otherwise I do love the colors you were able to tease together for the sunset and think they're really well done. Thanks for sharing yourself and your art!

Oh! I’m so so bad when it comes to light sources. I get carried away and then think no one will notice ☺️
- Light is SUPER tough, but it can be the difference between awesome and extraordinary! I think taking down the intensity of the bright colors of the water on the left to add maybe a hint of reflection and a mild glow to the treetops on both sides would have taken the piece to another level! In that case it would have given a clear view that the sun had dipped just below the right mountain peak maybe 30 minutes prior.
  
  I know this sounds critical but I want to stress that I still really like it!

I'm gonna say that it depends. Are you self-taught? Then you're doing great, keep going!

Serious critique and suggestions:

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The work you're doing is pretty basic, fairly competent. You're getting a rough feel for what you're depicting, but not really finishing the impression. The color is okay, but the water and sky feel flat. It's an idea of a mountain landscape, but not yet fully fleshed out in form or feeling. It's more a quick sketch than a finished piece. This isn't meant to be cruel or mean; if you're a relative novice, then this is fantastic work, and you should be proud of your progress.

My suggestion is to take some drawing classes at your local CC, really learn to look at and see things, and then try to reproduce them on paper. Start with still lives, and work up to life drawing. (The schools I've been to had drawing I & II as prerequisites for painting classes; both were 3 credit studio classes. They end up being a little cheaper if you're auditing rather than working towards a degree.) One of the things that you pay for when you take college level art classes is brutally honest criticism, with the intent of helping you find ways to improve and be more true to your subject, and to your vision of that subject. That's hard to replicate outside of school, since friends and family usually aren't going to really critique work for fear of hurting a relationship. (I had one teacher--German--that ended up making about a quarter of her students cry at one time or another because she was so blunt in her critiques.)

And hey!, you can ignore everything I've said, and keep painting the way you want to because it makes you happy, and that's okay! It's absolutely fine to do a thing just because you enjoy doing it! You don't have to be an expert in order to enjoy doing something.

For myself, it's taken me over a decade to get back into trying to make anything since I burned out so hard at art school. I'm slow, but I'm gradually working on patterning new apparel pieces. I might even have something finished by the end of the year. School pushed me to make fashion that was artistic, and I've realized that my own aesthetic is more utilitarian; I'm never going to need a mood board to create work.

I’m self taught- besides a few YouTube tutorials here and there, I like trying to figure things out.

I really enjoy creating. I’ve never been good at drawing and only half good at painting. But I’m realising not everything I have to create needs to be good- sometimes it’s about the process.

Burn out is so real. It’s important to enjoy what you’re doing.

I create for me- so I don’t care if my paintings aren’t all there. I enjoyed painting, and I’m proud of myself for sitting down and doing it.

Thank you for your advice- it comes from a good place.
- It’s important to enjoy what you’re doing.
  
  I totally agree. I loved drawing and designing before I went to school. Now I don't. I'm much, much better at it than I was, but I'm also apathetic about it. I think that being happy with what you're doing, and getting joy out of the process, is more important than any kind of technical prowess.

Some of the finest I've seen.

You flatter me

Love those twin peaks. The painting is nice too

Sweet

I'd say your mom did a good job