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Hah! Thanks Taron!
It was not intentional but yeah, limited palette, higher contrast and a lot of splashing with brush gives that feeling!
I was after all aiming for something tangible if you ask me.

Aaaaah, very very good!
Love it!!
Great style even though I thought it would turn out more colourful

Very cool Zen. I love his expression! I think its a great image

Thank you guys!

Knacki, yes, with colors would be more expressive, I'm sure! It started as sketch and I lost myself in, hours passed (yes hours) and there was no time for more lol! I will try to do it once in color. I'm also interested how it will look like.

Tartan, yes, I was aiming for his lines of character and expression. He has so much characteristic face, very demanding but interesting to paint.

I think it's my very first portrait at which I gradually worked at whole painting!

Here goes one in color to break the silence.
A study from black&white photo reference.
Color choice is funny but wanted to play with colors ...lol.
Still missing a vase with flowers and I'm not that happy with outdoors.
Just a touch in PS to adjust/fit levels.

[Taron]

REALLY NICE, Zen! Love the insane color exaggeration, still holding on to natural lighting aspects! Fantastic!
And the mountains are gorgeous, carrying the color explosion into depth so gently. Really fun to watch this virtuosity!

Yes, zen. What a nice result! I like the color exaggeration and colors you choose too.. lightning and overall concept is really nice!

Break the silence.. sometimes you can meet a little break here.. but don´t worry, we love Verve and Taron and we all try to return back as soon as possible!

Thank you guys! I really appreciate your kind comments.

@Taron
It's nice to work from black & white reference, because of good chance for surprising result.
General idea is to match tone from the B&W image with color of your choice.


@Lemi
I like this place and people, Verve and Taron too!

Here is updated (I would say final lol) version!

[Taron]

Yeah, you've brought the vibrancy into the midground to bind it all beautifully together! GREAT PIECE!
As for the calm pace on the forum, I think, it will pick up again, once I start painting more and make a video with an upcoming version. The next version might just be ready for a nice clip, who knows!

Thank you!
Yes, I also tried with green color for the river, but it didn't worked. The frame of left window simply missed that contrast with blue.
I also tried to fix this "weird distorted" lower part of window's pit, which I painted like that, but also, when it's perfect by linear perspective rules it just didn't worked too;-). I guess painting somehow ignores linear perspective rules (two eyes vs. one eye battle lol).
Looking forward to your painting, video and next version!