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Really learning from the self paced line to life course.David

Good work! There are a few issues with your perspective, but overall you captured the scene well and have understood the light/shade and tonal values. As well you caught the essential 'mood' of the scene which is of real importance. What a great exercise.

Thank you for your feedback

I wanted to see this more clearly, so I took the liberty of enlarging it and (hopefully) returning the paper to something close to white. (Your images can be up to 1000 pixels wide, with no height restriction). Everything Linda said - plus... you've kept it simple, and that can be a difficult lesson to learn.

It's so easy to get sucked into detail until the point is reached where the detail swamps everything else. Each part vies for attention, resulting in nowhere receiving it.

For example, the background trees are suggested as forms without detailed leaves, so the bell tower gets the attention. And its sharp edges push it forwards of the softer trees. All good decisions. The same applies to the walls. They appear to be rendered, so that removes some detail, and the foliage is simplified. But so also is the surface of the walls - except for the campanile that possesses just enough detail to grab the eye. "The Four Bells" is a good title, and they are definitely the main source of interest.