The Sky Cells always break them. (Northern Harrier by Karl MĂ„rtens)
See also: Karl MĂ„rtensâ video profile by the Cricket Fine Art Gallery, London
MĂ„rtensâ next solo exhibition at Cricket Fine Art Gallery begins September 26, 2017.
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Comments and feedback welcome!
I like this design, Pacing! Itâs more quite for the Eyeâs to look at. If I should put a word in the negative way, it would be, that I think an alignment of the Digital Clock, and the date, in top (move the Clock, up), would be better.
Thanks for the feedback, @post! I think youâre right about the Day/Month/Date!
There wasnât much room for me to move the Digital Time up (because it expands for times like 12:xx and Iâm unwilling to cut into the falcon) but I moved it a little higher, and moved the Temperature down a few pixels as well. Hopefully this creates enough white space.
Iâm well aware, of the space! But now, I think itâs goes the âwrong wayâ. What if you turned the Bird some degrees to Right, and then it would give space between the Wings, to get Time and Date, aligned.
By the way, the artist (Karl MĂ„rtens) you have used for the Bird illustration, lives not so far from me, so I know heâs art work well, and heâs âloveâ to illustrated Birds.
Here is a link (original language), to one of the many Galleries he use in Sweden where he lives.
I love his work! The fact that MĂ„rtens uses only Chinese and Japanese calligraphy brushes, that he paints from memory, combined with his singular focus on birds⊠Iâm a fan, but his paintings show for $3000-$10000!
I could buy one, or actually go birding in Sweden. 
Iâm unwilling to rotate the falcon to get the time and date on the same horizontal; I donât want to alter the painting, and I donât want to create an implied line across the wing.
I do think that the negative space looks much better now, so thank you for that suggestion!
I like this one @pacingpoet. Nice. More so because the image lends itself to an overlay of text that works out well geometrically with the face real estate. The images on all of your faces are beautiful, but I especially like the ones where the textual layout is also complementary.
I also liked your work with the Pourville Monet - the cliff walk one. Monetâs beach painting of Pourville would probably also work out well because thereâs a lot of sky and a nice, wide horizon.
Thanks,
John
Thanks, @jmorga106!
Whatâs most interesting to me about this painting is that you can almost feel the lift under the falconâs wings.
I didnât want to make any modifications that compromise that.
Yes, maybe a trip to Sweden 
About the prices; None of the artworks, in the link I attached in previous post, cost more than in the level of $3-400 - only few, cost max $750
Oh wow! I was citing prices at the London gallery. Maybe he only shows his favorite works overseas.
A little off topic! 
No, I think this with prices in Sweden, is more because he is so well known for heâs arts, that most (Birds and Nature lovers) knows him in Sweden and Scandinavia, and are so used to heâs drawings and paintings, that itâs almost an everydays kind of art for these people, and there he canât get so high prices.
But on Galleries around the World, he can lift the prices, as an more âunknownâ artist.
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