A Strange New Pet

The work “A Strange New Pet” is definitely peculiar, but the forms are still very pleasing to the eye.
A good composition guides the viewer on a trip around the environment the artist have created.

When I saw this picture, a spiral mountain in the center sucked my eyes right in, and by studying the mountain, my eyes are then lured to a petish pandapus creature dangling below a crane.

I zoomed in with curiosity to investigate some details, and no doubt the colors used in the shadows, as well as the dynamic flow of positive and negative space created by some interesting holes in the mountain, are very well chosen.

Although the structure is very intriguing, there is one object in the overall composition that I find unnecessary.

I believe that the mountain of the right side can be omitted, or, even better, casted into the background by some fog. It is acting as a distraction from the main subject and it blocks off the open sky on the right.

Depending what kind of effect the artist would like to express, blending the mountain on the right with the sky would give the painting a more generous feel.

Over all the image is, indubitably, simply awesome.