Exquisite Meli...so peaceful..and the colors are gorgeous. I love when you do the country scenes. You have a way of making them come alive.

Very beautiful Meli! I love the colors and the composition. The imagery is so real, one almost feels as if they are there experiencing the view. Great work!

Now you have made me homesick - this is wonderful. Its so alive and vibrant - I can smell the grass and trees. (And I think you are spot on with your bit about the English and Tuscany - which I love equally as well as my own backyard). Love this so much. You know I dont normally rate art work but this is an exception.

stunning work the colors make it come alive s hugz meli

Man, it's a perfect landscape... My mother loves it too. Colors and light are marvelous. And this tree... love it.

This is just stunning Meli. A brilliant imaginative composition capturing England to a tee. But the colours are glowing, the light coming in to the tree area is just awesome. An extremely warm painting. You have put your feelings into it.

This is how a landscape should look like... The image invites to stay there for longer :-)

this is you at your very best my friend.. and since I have already seen how the next one is workin itself out throught your hands, I just can tell everyone to watch out. It could be even better.

I am just sitting here enjoying it. The color has just a bit of the ancient(in the reddish and yellowish tones) that disguises an English freshness as an American would have seen it.

no words :)

I would like to see the original..was there a filteer used over this?

very nice...very serene

hah! I'd expect Keats to be quoted under a painting like this. exceptional tecnhique, as much as I disagree with serene landscapes -boring and purposeless (don't misunderstand me. that's only my opinion). nonetheless, the technique is marvellous as I said above, and one can almost see the time spent on each of your brushstrokes, gallimel. congrats

Wow! Wow! and Wow! Yup, that covers it. Excellent technique...

Nice colors

thanx to those who appreciated my efforts here :) it took a lot for me to being satisfied with it but it seems it was worthy :) Some random replies: To Baalzebub: the only filters I have used are from Painter 6: I sharpened it a minimum (really a minimum) then I used the "Equalize" tool, again at a very low level :) This paint as the next one of the same way is pat of a marriage gift to two friends' couple and currently they are packed for them in their houses. BUT after 16 of September I can certainly scan the not treated version (although they are very similar) which is bigger and has my real sign over it in oil pencils (I had to rewrite a signature as the cut off for the scanning deleted a noticeable part of the landscape, including the signature :) Thanx especially to cneofotistos..Man, being just in awe in front of your art, the fact you appreciated something I created is priceless to me :)

Very Pre-raphaelite, very hip! Hugs, Dani. PS: no PS :)

Gorgeous artwork, Meli!! - This is a wonderful scene, full of peace... and your technique in composition and colouring is excellent, friend!!! - Congratulations for create this lovely and very vibrant landscape :-)

I won't ever be able to be fair on your art Meli: because I adore everything you make. This is such a fantastic work, and the one thing which matches it in my mind is your beauty only.

Finally again I write eh.. ;) Well, as always a beautiful piece of work. And a subject which you do not paint too often either. So very intrigueing. It gives me several different feelings and ideas, depending on when I look at it. One that comes constantly though is the warmness and the peacefulness. The reflections on the tree and bushes, as some others have commented on, really brings memories of my hometown environements during the late nights in the summer. Like now actually. Artistically, from the little I know, you can really see that it is so fulfilled with your love into the subject of the artwork that it transcends the entire piece way high. A 'funny' thing though is that when I said I get different feelings about it during different moments, well one of them is the feeling that in any second you could see some little Hobbit's lurking in the shadows. Tolkien would have been proud of the drawing. That is for sure.

Excellent work meli :) !!! i like your technique.

Well Done gallimel. I like the sharper focus in the foreground and the way the horizon blurs away in the distance.

beautiful painting.. great colors!

nagishiva, you adorable creature.. thanx, everytime you speak about what I make, even if you do it so rarely, you always make me feel like I am living in a fairy tale :) thanx also to miasmak (that's honouring for me!!) and nicodeco and o0ii :) you're makin me truely happy :)

I am stunned that this is a real paint. Exquisite and delicate.

Colori bellissimi... E' come se me li sentissi sulla pelle... (Non so se i colori siano cose percepibili con il tatto, ma l'effetto che mi fanno quello: come se fossero un raggio di sole)

To say that I love your work would be an understatement Meli. You are an amazing artist and we are so incredibly lucky to have such talents shared with all of us. This image is proof of that... thank you for sharing once again!

Very Butifull Mel :) a lovely hilly area too :) looks outside window... arg im on the wrong side of the house for a hill view Love tose red tones in it, make it feel all warm and nice :)

Very beautiful and impressive work. Glad to see some outstanding painting. Good Luck! P.M.

Another wonderful stuff: it's like I'm there and I can feel the sun on my skin, the breeze in my hair and the birds all around... Gabriele