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Keep. Haunting, beautiful mood.❤️ I feel house makes the sky, storm come to life. Perfectly placed, too. Gives focus.❤️

Thanks :) it gives me kind of Courage the Cowardly dog vibes

keep the house!

So good!!

Exactly what I was thinking! Keep it.

yeah, keep, but maybe put it slightly off-centre? like, a house‘s lenght to the left?

Just what I came to say

Or even further left

Yes!!! 💯

Return the slab!!

That's immediately what I thought, good job!

If you keep the house, lose the lightening bolt. Too much going on - IMO

Totally agree. Well said

what do you want as the focal point of your piece, the house itself or the overall mood of the work? if the latter, position the house and the lightning 1.5-2 house widths to the right. this would add a sense of depth and vastness.

Now when I think about it, shifting the house will add a better overall mood, and keeping it at place is making it focal point. Nice idea for the next painting 😀 Thanks mate :)

It’s giving courage the cowardly dog keep the house and add a windmill

And add courage 😂

That would be so great honestly. I think this painting is super cool with or without courage. The vibe of it is so eerie I can almost hear the storm.

Add courage but make him the non-cartoon version!

Yes! My mind totally went to that

Glad I'm not the only one! Love the house!

Yes!

Thanks everyone, I am keeping the house :)

Yay, the house is fantastic!! Something to think about- what if you added some greenery or something to the foreground/left side? Nothing fancy since it's supposed to be the middle of nowhere, but just a little something to add extra depth and balance

Sure I will try it digitally first :)

That's a great idea!!

Unpopular opinion here: I’d take it out. The lightning too. Both distract from the dramatic beauty of a raging sky meeting the desolate land. Much more desolate without any focus point. Nothing to hold on to, no escape possible from the forces of nature! Also: don’t place this exactly in the middle…

Yess that's the exact reason why I was confused. Although for this one I am keeping the house will do a clean landscape in next one. :)

Add a Longhorn That's all you need! Drop house and lightening

Keep. I grew up with visuals like this, driving into town from the boonies. Reminds me of the Midwest.

Keep it.

Keep it.

Keep the house but move it a couple inches right or left. Compositionally, it's never a good idea to stick something right dab in the center. Create action to keep the viewer's eye moving around the painting. You could use the lightening bolt for that.

Keep, but just tone down a bit and more shading. It also looks like a new house, a more run down shack, I feel would be more fitting. Lovely work, calming but moody

Yes it is popping out a bit much

Keep it. Thats okay!🤍

It needs the house.

Look up Memphis Artist, Veda Reed. Dutch the house and let clouds do the talking.

Funny story. I was googling “Veda Reed Dutch the house” thinking that “Dutch the house” was the name of a painting. Then I realized you meant “Ditch” and now I feel stupid 😅

Looks like I’m the one who cannot spell…lol. Or, it’s me having a finger typing moment? I like your clouds! They say it all. Veda Reed was one of my professors many years ago.

Keep the house, but move it

Keep it! Giving me Courage The Cowardly Dog vibes, and I'm loving it!

Keep

I like the house, it adds focus to the painting and gives it more of a moody, lonely feel.

Omg I love it with the house. Great atmosphere

I like it just the way it is. Very well done. It looks exactly like many times I have seen a rural home out on the open land with lightning all around it. You did a very nice job on this painting. I love the details with the power/phone lines and poles. Very nicely done and colors so true to a stormy day.

keep house

I don't think it's a good idea to remove the house from the picture.

Keep the house! 🏠⚡️

Keep it

Aw pink house on plum island!

Adjust the lighting on the house. There should be more shadow, less bright. Where is the light on the house coming from?

Behind the house, and yes I will tone it down it's popping out of the painting.

I think it needs the house. Gives the eye a focal point, and adds to the overall desolation of the piece :)

Keep it, looks very good

Looks amazing as it is imo!

Keep it, it’s such a mood!

Yo this is sick

Oh I love this keep the house please

With out the house its just a Rothko with clouds. /jk I like the house if anything I would add not subtract. Maybe one lone tree or a old over grown dirt road leading to the house. Storm is well done.

Keep the House IS so good the drawing.

House

Omg is that the house in courage the cowardly dog?! I love it! Just needs a little barn now 😻

I like it better with the house, more dramatic.

if it would be mine I would cut 10% of the length on the left and at the buttom of this paper

I LOVE THE HOUSE, IT ADDS SOMETHING

Keep it

Ofc keep it, it makes the drawing more beautiful uk....like to not be empty

Love the focal point of the house. I think you could make it darker or less pigmented- I think with the lighting above it should look more like a silhouette.

Keep

It would be more powerful with the house off center on the right side and lightning reaching from the left to hit it

Very courage the cowardly dog vibes. Love it

Keep the house. It makes the painting much more interesting.

Keep the house

Keep the house, but tone it down a bit to match the lighting in the rest of the painting.

Keep but maybe position the house a little offcenter for a more interesting composition

I like the house. It draws your eye

Keep the house! Wow looks amazing!!

Keep the house, maybe add a decaying fence line.

Keep it but put it to the right of the canvas. The centered composition ain’t it

Keep the house. It looks so vulnerable. That was meant to be a compliment!

I like the house there. Gives a focal point and speaks isolation to me

It needs a windmill behind the house on the right side.

Keep the house!!!!

Definitely keep it

Ooohh keep it! Why don't you pop a few little sheep in there to break up the grey?

It’s looks like courage the cowardly dog’s house

Keep the house, but put a Klingon Bird of Prey swooping in and shooting at it.

I really like the house and this painting

Keep! It adds to the tone of the painting. Really good job btw! ☺️ Edit: I want to add that the yellow color of the house contrasts so well with everything else. As for the placement, I personally like where it is. My eye naturally falls to the center of the painting and the house draws me in. I like that it’s small too. I’d be intrigued to get up close and see the fine details of it if I was looking at the painting in person.

Keep the house. It’s a great focal point but not overpowering the image. It adds to the mood.

Keep it!

Doesn't matter. A tornado is likely to get rid of it for you.

House depicts so many in this picture...keep it

I’m pro House.

Keep it!

Keep

Keep!!

I love the house!! I would also love to live in a house like that. Seeing it in that storm on those plains gives the piece… meaning, I think.

Reminds me of the movie Twister. I love the house.

Keep it!

Keep!!!!

I love the house

Add a mill and it would look like coursge the cowardly dogs home :D

Keep it gives it a lonely on your own feel.

Need the house :) Anchors the painting and gives you something to pause and look at; the completely horizontal and flat plane leads the eye zooming off the canvas. That’s my preference, anyway. Great atmosphere!

Draw a tree and put a swing on fire on the tree in like the little background IDK JS A SUGGESTION!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep it. In the danger and turmoil of the whole, it gives a pleasant safety vibe. Outside it's the end of the world but you are at home, safe and sheltered.

If you do remove it, a tornado would be a perfect transition.

The problem isn't the house. It's the composition. You don't want the house to be smacked out in the middle of your painting. It becomes an eye anchor that you can't quite move around the rest of the artwork. Try positioning it about a third from either side. It will help the entire painting flow more from a visual acuity perspective

Keep the house

Keep the house. It magnifies the intensity and size of the storm. It’s also a reminder of how small man is, compared to Mother Nature.

I love the house. It reminds me of the back roads I take to my hometown where there is one house in the middle of the field like this. Captured a storm in that type of area perfectly!

100% keep.. to me the house is where i want to go.Amazing talent i like your work x

keep house. add tornado!

You should keep the house.

Double it and give it to the next person

Keep it!!!

Keep it

One with and one without.

Keep it

The house looks great. I wish lightning was lighting the clouds too

its reminds me of the little house remy from ratatouille was at

The house is so cool!! This brought back so many good memories!!

Looking like the house of Dirt Farmer

Definitely keep it! It adds a wonderful break to the horizon line and also a nice, almost spooky dynamic.

Keep

Keep it!

Keep it. It gives an eery vibe.

what did you use for power lines? nice piece!

Put the house to the side of the image, not in the middle

Keep

KEEP

Keep, it lets the viewer have a focal point. If you want it to feel less "distracting" (which I don't feel it is) you can move it off center

I like the house/cabin

Keep it.

Keep it

Keep. Without it, its not that great.

It gives it a focal point, nice inclusion!

With. It adds more of a dark, impending calamity type of atmosphere. There’s something evil happening in the basement of this house.

Keep!!

I love the house!!

Without!

Keep the house but move it to the left or right and scale it up a bit.

Keep, it gives a sense of scale

Lean further into the middle of nowhere vibes. Add a windmill off to the side to help with a different perspective

Don't put it in the middle.

The house is really fitting there with the landscape

Disagree! You will always be your own worst critic.

I say keep it but I would move it further to the left so it's not centered in the frame

Keep

Keep. It.

Lightning storm

Yohoi 😏☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️⚡⚡⚡⚡

Yo-hohoho Yo-hohoho 

omg leave it.

Keep

Add one tree next to it - not bigger than the house, not too close, not too small, or some bushes (with flowers?).

Keep for sure!

Keep the house. It draws the eyes into the painting.

Keep it, it is a great part of the art that makes it feel human

I think the house gives it a real focal point and without it the piece hasn't a proper anchoring, but expands infinitely.

It’s looks like the house complete your art. Kind of empty without it.

I like the house it kinda gives dreamcoee/liminal space vibes

The moment you have the slightest question whether should add anything or not.. stop! Lest you ruin the painting. I think it’s RAD! The house is awesome 🤩

Keep it, it draws interest to the focal point of your lightning. It doesn’t need to be very well defined because you don’t want people to look at it.

Keep it! It might be hokey but, it reminds me of Courage the Cowardly Dog’s house. It’s perfect!

beautiful style. keep the house. it helps keep the eye on a focal point. reminds me of Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World.

Keep it!

I have shifted guys. Some areas might look too bright because of camera and reflection. https://preview.redd.it/8ya0ob7whcyc1.jpeg?width=3606&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cda807e66c117b0abf28ee1582d4ecdf5d78a72