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Thanks, Michele! If you only knew how many reworkings it took to get this into its present state!

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Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng

Thank you all!
Allan--so those are the reeds you use for thatching? I like how you could tell it was early summer. And I love your landscape! The reeds are done so loosely and delicately, with just the right touches of hard edges, the water is lovely (I especially admire how it interacts with the stems of the reeds), and I love the way you indicated the trees in the background. The few strokes at the pointed tips are just right! Is this near where you live? I am struck by the similarity to Maine, which is the setting of my painting. Have you seen these works (below) by Aapo Pukk, an Estonian artist? He was a finalist this year at the PSoA.
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Alex,
the lake was my daily view from a house that I thatched last summer, I just had to do it. I used the knife a lot in this painting.

I did not knew Aapo Pukk before. I like his paintings very much and I am sure that he could find the same motifs here in Denmark just like the ones you have showed.

Right now I am busy painting pictures for an exhibit on Anholt starting midst July. I went over there two week ago to sketch and collect motifes. The nature of Anholt is preserved area, 9/10 of the Island is untouched by civilization, you should all see it,..... motif's for a lifetime and the best light in the country.

Thank you all for liking my small water scape !

Allan,

Anholt sounds wonderful. Probably just my kind of place. My list of places to see in Scandinavia grows longer and longer. I want to go back to Saaremaa, also to Gotland, where the name "Tyng" originated. We have friends in Norway whom we would love to visit. Northern Finland is another place. I could go on and on.

And if you are ever in the United States you must visit Maine. Lots of places--woods, lakes, farmhouses, lighthouses, rocky shore and islands in the sea.

I think you have the better light, though. Being farther north, you get the more slanted, golden sun rays.

Alex, this is so beautiful! I just love this piece: brava! :)

Thanks, NB! It was really due to you that I posted it here. When you came into my studio and enthused over it, I got a little more confident about it (only re-working parts of it after that) and decided to risk seeing what other people thought of it.

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Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng

Hi Alex,
Please do come around when you go to Scandinavia, I would love to show you Egon, my famous model, you know.
I just went to Anholt to paint for the exhibition in July. Me and my wife Aud had some nice days in the company of Sys and Egon. It was out of the tourist season and very peaceful. I did some landscape paintings on location and finished some others at home.
You can see them on my homepage now.

Alex, I love your painting. I love the greens. It feels exactly right to me. The color, the composition, the transparency of the water, the mood, everything is superb!

Linda,

Thank you for noticing these things! I'm noticing, as I paint more scenes with figures in them, that I have to hold the scene in my mind for a while until I can distill it to its essence--then I am able to put all these elements together in the way you so generously describe as "exactly right." It certainly feels right when I'm working on it, but there's always that doubt whether other people will think so.