I like the scan you picked. But the rest of the wall, simply feels like a slave to the scan. I could almost do without everything else in the picture. Sure the snowman and the birds are 'cute' but overall, I can feel the creative process, just as you describe it, simply by looking at the picture. It looks like you found a scan you liked, made it the centerpiece, and then just brainstormed random wintry things so that it could be a full size wall.

It's always dangerous to start with a scan that you really like already. Because of course, you don't want to change it, and you don't want to hide it, and you don't want to distract from it. And that's exactly what we've got here. The composition is front and center, and if I squint just the littlest bit, everything turns to white except our beloved couple. Snow is tricky because it is so homogeneous in real life, making it difficult to communicate distance with it when drawn or painted. So the tiny sleds and tinier trees, help give us reference points to judge the distance. But again, they feel to me more like necessary reference points than anything else. Every time my eyes move from the girl to the sleds, something seems odd.

Overall I suppose that my critical word is that there's something about your picture that feels more like a collection of objects than a coherent world. I'm not so sure that it's your fault. Nevertheless, it seems to me to be lacking cohesion. In the end I can't help liking it better as a close up shot, as in the original scan. Here you've effectively moved the camera out, without enhancing the scene in any significant way. I may be all wrong.

The scene does have a certain charm, but not any more charm then we find in the original scan, I don't think. What's sweet about it is the two of them, bundled up, holding hands, and the gentle forehead kiss. The birds and the snowman just ruin the tender atmosphere. Your intent is probably to appeal to the nostalgic play of childhood. But our couple here strikes me as two young lovers, not as two little kids.

I don't mean to say that the whole picture's a wash or anything. I just get tired of reading comment after comment on every single wall that simply says "I really like this" or "This is really great." Even if everybody disagrees with what I wrote here, at least we will all be engaged in a little bit of critical thinking together because of it. I should mention that I think your painting work is very well done, especially the lighting. Snow has a way of reflecting light and giving everything a soft white glow, and I get a sense of that from the picture here.

I also like the title. Titles are precarious things. Be too specific and you can ruin the experience for your audience. Be too vague, and your audience may miss something significant about your piece. 'That Day' finds a comfortable place right between those extremes. It gives the viewer some direction without being overly specific. Snow Day would be too vague. And First Kiss would be too specific. But That Day allows me to imagine my own story yet encourages me that there is something special about this scene in the story. Consequently, I am able to assign my own unique significance to this scene. And I go away feeling both that something special is happening here that was worth capturing in a picture (which vindicates you, the waller) as well as having my own particular spin on what exactly that something special is that is being captured (which is satisfying for me, the viewer)

So I enjoy the title, the lighting, and the scene, but I don't much like the overall composition. I'll look through your other walls and try to shower you with praise elsewhere. See ya.