Comment by Donald Maier on January 11, 2011 at 3:59pm

very fine work

Comment by Robert Rohrich on January 11, 2011 at 5:39pm

Very nice Gary.  it's a beauty.

Comment by robert spannring on January 11, 2011 at 6:21pm

Gary, Really like this painting, capture that space behind the delicate tree brush, great exercise, that space between the tree brush and the bridge!, nice tonalist painting.

Comment by Kathryn Townsend on January 11, 2011 at 6:34pm

Beautiful color harmonies!

Comment by Gary Ripley on January 11, 2011 at 8:50pm

Thank you friends for the sweet and kind comments... I can't remember the last time that
anyone commented on my work... :)

Comment by Nika Zakharov on January 11, 2011 at 9:10pm

Very skillful and seamless paint handling, good rhythm. And beautiful to look at.

Comment by Helen Juliet Campbell on January 13, 2011 at 10:44pm

Marvelous. 

Comment by Gary Hilton Walker on January 14, 2011 at 5:58pm

The bridge painting of your Confederation Park River Crossing has wonderful passages of tone from light to dark; in the snow, the river and the bridge rails. Often neglected, it gains force as in your work when used in large areas - we see it more in painting of skies; a progression from darker to lighter, and best not parallel to the painting edges, but in a diagonal direction. I too have adored Nika’s pastels and noted earlier to her - particularly her drawings in this regard - notice she has similar value change from dark to light in the palms trunks and the palm foliage, one’s dark, one’s light. Another one of many great exponents of this tonal technique is Albert Handel’s work here on Plein Air Artists, he uses it often especially in painting trees. Any drawing is hugely enhanced with dark and light, think and thin diversity, difference as we know a big design element. In painting, having areas or passages from light to dark in a work very often enhances tremendously in the same way and often we forget its use in favour of line to distinguish areas and direct the eye. ;)

Comment by Gary Hilton Walker on January 14, 2011 at 6:29pm

Was watching the master Clyde Aspervig’s painting demonstration today on you tube, always a treat :) – he used this tonal progressional change also but for aerial perspective; to enhance the effect of distant hills where they meet the sky and roll over, he changes tone across the hills edge to allow the eye to leave and enter where he wishes it to journey ;)

Comment by Gary Hilton Walker on January 14, 2011 at 6:53pm

A correction below to Albert's surname - Handell - I appologise for 'typo'. One can learn a great deal from this wonderful artists work ;)

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