Mmm, makes perfect sense now. When I'd looked at it earlier, it didn't strike me as a sunset... most sunsets are obviously varying in color and brightness, but it was sort of dreary.

However, like I said before your technique is great, and the experimenting you did is really astonishing. My only suggestion now would be to make the sky bit not quite so watery. I think that if you made it more cloudy as opposed to watery, it would be a lot more recognizable for what it really is.

I think that making it a more familiar picture to an audience would also help them understand the emotion and the feeling that you've put into it. Because I know I would feel the heaviness in my heart if I could look at it and see a sunset... albeit a dark bluish-crimson creation of one... it would accomplish that goal.

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