Amazing work Helle. God bless.

This could be a digifiddled photograph Helle but I know it's not. This is a very charming and excellent little pic.

Beautiful scene with lots of charm..super composition

A delightful piece of work, Helle! I like the way you did the hollyhocks.

Sweet and very very well done painting !!

Helle, you did a marvelous job on this lovely watercolor painting. This place reminds me a lot of San Miguel De Allende.

I love your watercolors. I just cannot seem to loosen up enough to get the wonderful feeling you produce in yours. I just need more practice. But, first I must spend most of my time learning Dutch. :) I have to take an integration test by August next year in Dutch (gulp) I must practice (oefenen) Dutch (Nederlands) a lot.

excellent Helle!

The fact that Jeff saw a possible 'photograph' in there is a compliment. First off (and I've made this point to you privately), I love your orange-beige here. I love the hue. And it works beautifully with those rust-reds for roofs. It's such an alive and restful hue. And many of the facades are so simple---not much detail on the front-most walls, just this restful beautiful orange. The detail is mainly from the flowers (and Andrea knew what they were---hollyhocks). Your jazzy, improvised hand is so delightful here, as the piece is organized and disciplined, but then you have this spontaneous way with your brush...and I love the shadow on the left side, incl on the road. And just a few lines for bricks and stones. Point is, you know where to put detail, and where not. And a really nice clouded sky, w/ nice blues in there! Fine composition too, with that road winding back into shadow. It's a delight, and it feels like watercolor all the way, and it draws us back and is wholly relaxing. I'd have fussed it half to death until I gave up, but you know when to use detail, in these pieces, and when not. A beautiful piece of magic. I'm so glad you're doing these, and I wish you everything as you keep doing them!

I would so love to live somewhere exactly like that! What a beautiful piece of artwork you have made!

What a wonderful view ahd the colors are perfectly chosen. A lovely painting!

WOW my friend... Another marvelous painting... WOnderfully done once again !!!

This is beautiful for so many reasons and it reminds me of a place nowhere near Dragoer (I don't know how to do that "o" with the "/" running through it, but I must learn since it looks so nice!) When I lived in the Czech Republic, I saw a lot of nice buildings with red roofs and ocher colored paint jobs; I lived on streets to narrow for automobiles, and often heard wandering accordion players in the night, when I wasn't hearing drunk people singing off key without musical accompaniment. This image brings back those memories, especially since I'm now in the USA in a very flat, dull, car-clogged place. I like Dragoer much better; it has flowers, it has color, it has streets narrow enough to have a minimal carbon footprint; and the way you rendered it here--in watercolors no less!--is absolutely perfect. I could easily live in such a town, especially if there is a bakery nearby. That's the other thing I miss about Europe: bakeries that you have to go to every day because fresh bread is the only kind of bread to eat. It's amazing that one image can conjure all of that: you didn't paint a bakery or accordion players, drunk singers or cats chasing butterflies (though you did post an image of a hunter-cat with his latest trophy.) Others have said it, and I'll repeat it here. The colors are restful and so perfectly peaceful. This is really fantastic work and I love it.

A beautiful place you have signed, my friend. I love the yellow-ocher color, shadows and hollyhocks; A real beauty, Helle!

Simple but lovely work. Good perspective. The sky is especially well-done!