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alexg · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 1:05 am

well, my first landscape painting ever...

acrylics on paper
60*40 cm

bye

Svanur · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 3:22 am

Nice.

As I don't know anything about Acrylics I can't talk about anything wrong in that area but the picture looks good

Anthony · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 6:05 am

Very nicely done, excellent rendering. Is the horizon line quite allright? It may just be the shoreline shape but I can't help feeling like the right bank is lower than the left bank. Probably the shapes.

Ahcri · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 7:26 am

I really like this one, the trees and their reflections on the water. It's wonderful.

Soliciouse · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 8:26 am

Amazing!

I like the reflection

[ October 03, 2001: Message edited by: Soliciouse ]

Awetopsy · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 9:13 am

thats quite impressive.. the concept behind drawing/painting/illustrating effective water still eludes me...

Pat · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 10:34 am

Nice light. Feels like it's filtering in from behind those trees. I like.

-Pat

MoleculeMan · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 1:15 pm

I like the painting. The thing that struck me the most for some reason is the lack of the color blue even though its a painting of a river. I guess its cuz i just read some where that some famous artist never used blue for water cuz it wasnt realistic or something. Cool painting.

Jake

ex · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 11:10 pm

Oh, my god. That's so nice. Do more. And share.

alexg · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 4:48 am

wow! so many compliments!
thank you !

Brain · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 6:32 am

I second everyone elses comments, bravo bravo ol' chap @:-)

Thing that gets me though is that it appears a bit flat to me... perhaps some warmer colours up front and some slightly saturated colours in the background could help.

Though as I look at it in the little window below, the depth is apparent. So perhaps it's the foliage in the upper half of the work that's throwing off the depth for me.

*shrugs* Or it could just be the jpeg. Real paintings need to be seen in real life, no? @:-) Or mebbe it's just me.

Once again though, lovely work.

cubulets · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 6:47 am

quote:
Originally posted by Anthony:
Very nicely done, excellent rendering. Is the horizon line quite allright? It may just be the shoreline shape but I can't help feeling like the right bank is lower than the left bank. Probably the shapes.

maybe the canavas was tilted

anyway great work ... as a matter of fact i love it =)

laslauk · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 6:53 am

Well, this is simply beautiful, perhaps you should make more landscapes.

eyewoo · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 7:11 am

Really, really nice. My only suggestion would be to add a bit more muted color to it.

[ October 04, 2001: Message edited by: fleabrain ]

egerie · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 11:41 pm

Yes indeed very nice. I like the water and the sunlight splashes on it.

Were you actually on the Canal du midi or was this done from a photo reference ? If it's the later, could we see pliz ?

-ege
http:www.cam.org/~arale/as

Matt Elder · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 12:16 am

Ah ... so your one of these people that on there first attempt doing something quite spectacular

It is a really nice painting and my comments would be along the lines of what has already been mentioned so I won't rehash. I do like the fact you have water without using blue.