[Petri.J]

This one is a huge oil painting! 120x45 cm. I cropped the sky off because it didn't work, but I kind of like the size now that there isn't so much sky.

I guess I should make the horizon disappear more in to the atmosphere because now it kind of seems too flat and too green.

[Sumaleth]

Depth is difficult to read at the moment.

The horizon is distinct from the clear middle ground, but everything in that large middle ground is on about the same scale; the lump of rocks at the bottom are about the same size as the rocks near the top/right, and the smoke vents are all similar. The image has a fractal quality, where you're never quite sure whether what you're looking at is close or distant.

But it is starting to work as a matte. Has the feel of those early oil film matte paintings.
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[Petri.J]

[Sumaleth]

You got it right for a telescopic lens effect. In that case I suppose the only problem might be that it's not clear that you're meant to read it that way, which could be solved by placing something very large and very blurred in the foreground, but it might not be necessary if the original intention was only to create the telescopic effect.
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[Petri.J]

Yeah I guess it all makes more sense when I add something there that you can recognize. It's difficult to judge distance from rocks.