Any advice is welcome. Don't know when I will finish it, I have this bad habit of starting paintings an not finishing them.

I haven't posted any work lately. Here is one I just finished of a sunlit opening in the forest. I really tried to focus on the form of the large "dead" tree in the middle of the composition. Although it is slightly off center, it is the focal point of the painting. It is actually a hardwood tree that has lost all of its bark and most of its limbs, allowing light to come in for the new growth as you can see in the two saplings on the right side of the picture. The saplings leaves are capturing all that sunlight and just glowing with bright green. I tried to keep the shapes of the leaf masses general and allow my brush work to describe the forms.

I took a photo of this scene myself. I liked the composition. Oil on panel, 11x14

Was given this canvas so thought id try it out.

Experiment with a more expressive painting with warm colours in gouache on paper (24x32 cm). Inspired by an internet tutorial. Still tried to incorporate Sam's method (darkest darks and lightest lights in the foreground etc), though I might have my mid ground trees and background purples still a bit too much on the saturated side, this way. Anyway, it was fun and another learning experience. I think I might have pushed the atmospheric depth a bit more, but I kind of like how the light/dark play turned out.