Praying for Sight

I have been working on this painting for about a year now, in and out of other projects and responsibilities.  It's for family, and I am doing it from a photo taken off of the Internet which I don't do at all...but in this case, my daughter in law wants a specific scene for her dining room so I took on this project.

It's very one dimensional here, oh I guess one can see that the canal is in the foreground and moving through the street of houses; and we see that we are looking at the buildings from the side.  The bridge and water are still one dimensional, and the fronts of the houses still need some dimension and color changes so that we can imagine they are somewhat weather worn.

Boats need work in that the perspective is wrong, they need to be more upright and not so open to the viewer looking into their bottoms.

I can only make this painting better at this point.  Pray!