Light and shadow, transparency and solidity, color and contrast, photograph and painting. It's wonderful! Oh, my friend ... do you know how hard it is to comment on what you do? I feel so much when I see your work, and I wish I could just open my head/heart and let you peek in so I could skip the part where I have to find words to say how much I like what I see.

Beautifully done.

Excellent, as always, I'm fascinated by your choice of colors!

I feel like Tara. Your work brings me so much pleasure, and I am filled with admiration.

You have such a wonderful range of talent. Here you have become a 19th century French expressionist painter. Exceptional work.

Amazing work my friend. God bless.

stunning photo and postwork

Wonderful interpretation.

I have to admit I feel the same, wonderful work. x

OH WOW! That is one fabulous piece of art. I really love this manipulation.

Absolutely love it.

Striking use of techniques to achieve a surreal result - outstanding work my friend, BB

Your work on the initial image is really well done and the resultr very fine. I like it!

Very interesting treatment of the image:)

This is GRAND as always, Nikolay! I am impressed, by the intensity of the 'feelings' that your image transmits and by the deep concept behind. Your image it is a 'world' of colors and contrasts--wonderful !! but we cannot live if we don't dream...and 'fantasia' is a thought provoking piece. Once again, you reached the target (this, is my point of view, as a viewer, of course:))

Yes, what Tara said; this is magnificent work, well beyond the average and up there with the masters!

I do like your eye for this kind of pictures and the post work is just perfect done!

I fully understand Tara and Andrea, in their inability to make words for what you do. But since I have a big mouth, I'll try. You capture the nostalgia and mystery of an urban street as few do. Your shading, deep and obliterating in spots, creates a feeling of the deep caverns of urban life. And of things lost, things yearned for. The deep luminous light---like the window under "fantasia"---has a feeling of intense life inside, but we're viewing it from the outside, so it's out of reach, though we know something very lively is happening in there. (It's the feeling, in huge metropolises, that everywhere we go, we're rushing past whole lives and histories, which we see in mere snapshots...they're so intense, but we see them in a 'click'...) The patches of strong pinkish red, blue, purple, the patches of rust reds and browns on the facade facing us, the mysterious blue lights peering through the dark, the intense hues and lights on the sidewalk (wet, intense)...these all give an air of intense moments and lives hidden in the shadows. And your linear treatment---something you've done many other times in your treatments---communicates something very "multiple" to me: the way you "ghost-line" the lines, make them like ghost-lines on a television screen, or those ghost-print-lines in badly coordinated color newsprint: They repeat the lines right next to themselves. These make us feel like we haven't fully focussed---because the view is so complex, it can't be taken in in one glance, which is all we have as we walk through a vast city. Like the cubists, who decided we see so many things at once, so why not 'show' them all at once, you let the multiple visions of a city come at us at once, metaphorically. It's a highly complex vision, filled with a kind of glass-prism effect, where the prism divides a light into all kinds of inner components; and where deep dark and luminous light live side by side, without argument. Above all, it feels like a glimpse into moments that are full yet unattainable to our passerby-status. It speaks about us, in a big city. Yearning, mysterious, hidden, revealed...it's masterful, Nikolay. (There, did I do ok, lol? I just love this style of yours!)