Thank you all! I appreciate your kind and honest comments!
@Zero
Yes, I spent least time painting that top part of the picture.
IMHO it's good to create balance in painting so that something less beautiful can be more beautiful, if you compare it with even less beautiful.
Thank you!
@Knacki
I had same mixed feeling when I compared both paintings. But, you're right, I had to lead eye out of interior!
btw. After I painted river green I asked my older, almost teenage daughter (I'm kinda developing her's art criticism) which one she liked more? She said one with blue river!
You know how to touch me in heart with a comment! Thanks!
Yes, I don't know but, as I started painting I was aware of process and painting and then, without noticing it I just felt sucked in, there was no more canvas/monitor in front of me.
It's crazy feeling, but I felt also there! That's how I skewed that window's pit as it's different on
reference I used!
@Taron
You also touched my heart with that comment! Yes, I'm missing Dalmatia, especially from this foggy weather in Zagreb! I guess that distant hills resembled one of Kozjak in my mind, as also can be seen from my parents home in Kastela.
It's used to be said that there is no art without suffering/struggling lol!
@Tartan
Thank you!
The painting is recreated from this
photo. The river is Neretva, at the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegowina (it's actually 2 hours north-east from Split).
It has very picturesque area with architecture one found in Dalmatia.