Maestas Plein air

1) What is the emotional tone of the image, and how is this accomplished? What are the objects and what is the space?
The object that i choose to paint is the old church located in Old Town, San Felipe de Neri Parish. i was trying to accomplish an old kind of mystical emotional tone. My Grandparents got married in this church 63 years ago. i did a hatching technique to make the church seem like it was alive. with most of the direction of the hatching done in the surrounding areas around the church is makes the eye focus more on the church instead of what is around it.
2) Is this a balanced composition? How could this further be improved?
I feel like it is a well balanced composition, the main focal point which is the church is placed in the middle. the rest of the buildings take up a majority or space so that your eye freely moves along the painting. it could maybe be further improved by making the church a bit bigger and the patio in front smaller so that the church building is the main object that is seen.
3) Is there volume, space, depth, and texture in both your objects and your space?
i have shadows on the side of the church to give it a 3-D look. the trees could have a bit more depth to them, but i wasn't quite sure how to go about that. there could be more detail added to the surfaces to give more of a textures look. i think the sky has the most texture, because you can see where the sky is starting to lighten with the sun moving.
4) Have you captured a specific time of day? What time is it?
The time of day is around 10 am, i feel like you can tell that the picture was painted during the day but the time may not be as clear. the blue sky could have been a bit more light, but also in Albuquerque the sky at that time is a mid tone blue. so it is a good attempt at capturing that time of day.
5) How could you improve this composition? Give at least three examples.
I could improve this composition by making the trees look more like trees and less like blobs. also i could make the shutters on the church look sharper. the black shadows in the left bottom corner i could have added more detail, so that is was more apparent what was in the shadows and in that area.