Into Great Brook

[Denise Hall]

Alex and Marcus and Allan,

I know I don't post here much but I do try to drop in about once a week to check out what is going on - These are really beautiful - I love the colors in yours Marcus and that secret place feeling is definitely coming through. Alexandra - everything you do is just superb - I love your soft approach to this especially and the water reflections are just lovely. Allan's is especially nice with the shadows in the water and the delicate reeds.

I've been painting landscapes between dancers and portraits as well - this keeps me sane during long portrait commissions I think and I have to sometimes drag myself back to the portrait!

Lovely work!

Denise

[Alexandra Tyng]

Denise,

Thanks for logging on and posting. It's really nice to "hear" your voice. I really appreciate your comments. I also find that painting landscapes is a wonderfully relaxing break from painting portraits. Though I encounter the same problems, there's more freedom, no pressure to get the likeness, and a lot of joy in just being out there in nature or re-creating the experience in the studio.

[Michele Rushworth]

Terrific painting, Alex! I particularly like how you've got a fully developed foreground but it doesn't take away from the center of interest farther back. It takes great value control to accomplish that!

[Alexandra Tyng]

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