Too expressive!

super cool awesome..... my favs

Beautiful drawing, colors are cool too. Good luck!

Thanks for all the constructive comments. Appreciated and means a lot to me.

° Have a great time, friends! °

Looks just like watercolor I like the background the most, really nice effect.

@Kid; thanks for the compliments. I myself, do LOVE the background most of all. Lol.

Really beautiful..........Good Luck Author.

Congrats beautifully done

congrats!

congrats man.. you deserved it

Thanks everyone for the support and comments. Appreciated so much!

@Anoop; thanks for your kind words, man. Well, it's a rush hour work. So bear with me, I couldn't make it as realistic as possible with water droplets. -__-a

The HiRes looks nice, but if I see your step one, you've lost quite some details in the background which imo looked more interesting (or maybe the final result is a bit on the dark side). The fishes look good as faraway silhouettes. Good luck!

i think both have there charm and are nice should keep two versions maybe

Thanks Waz, Eladine, I find it very hard to do sketchy type work. I see so many here and elsewhere and really like the looks and style ,but I have a problem of not being able to leave things alone till it is sharp and pretty realistic or at least blemish free. This was almost not entered because I really felt it was far from finished, so your comments make it a bit better. thanks.

Very nice composition, but the tree branches are too symmetrical on the left, like the teeth on a comb. You need to paint some branches in the middle of the tree facing the viewer. Branches need to overlap and grow from different directions, not just the sides.

Here is a tutorial about painting pine trees you may find helpful:
http://watercolorworksart.blogspot.com/2008/03/painting-pine-tree.html

nice painting author...GL

FANTASTIC IMAGINATION author! I like your color selections as well. Keep them coming....

Thnaks for your comments...wish I had more time to do more pieces...

Good overall composition, the eye is nicely led across the painting.

Your biggest problem is one of being consistent in your painting.
The tree trunks suddenly get very thin from thick, and you over did the above ground roots a bit too much.
Your coloring is also inconsistent. This is most noticeable in the sky. Generally, the sky is slighly darker at the top, getting a little lighter as you get nearer the earth. Your sky has like a "light colored halo" around the picture.
This brings up the biggest consistency problem, the water reflection. Your sky is darker and bluer, with clouds that the sky doesn't show, while your trees are LIGHTER in the water reflection. .

You also have the edges of the water a bit too perfect, more like a swimming pool or a puddle after a rain. If you study some photos of landscapes, you will see that nature is seldom quite so regularly shaped and spaced.

Here is an example to show you - Notice the coloring of the sky and the trees, and along the edges of the water:
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1076964

It's a good start, you will get better the more you practice.

cool work...gl

For someone that is new to painting you surely take on a difficult subject matter in a bold fashion. For this you are to be commended highly. Honestly I can not say enough about the courage a person displays when trying something new and then posting it in a forum such as this. Way to go Man!
As far as suggestions for you to improve.........do another one!
Message me if I can help at all. If you do Netflix there is an Acrylic painting video under special interests. Follow along and they will have you moving ahead fast. Best of luck!
Oh.....and fan brushes are great for grass.

Yes...I agree with above....keep painting and paint what you love!!!!! Good Job author!

Thanks all for your comments, specially the tips and suggestions.

YOU are so brave.
like i said on another comment, i tried...i tried with a valiant effort, and wasnt' happy with any of my results in this one...so i give you high commendations on givin it your all.
honestly, a landscape is one thing i didn't think to be so difficult til i set out doing it..and i realized, i really had no idea what to do with it. ..
Good luck on this, and all your future ones. i look forward to seeing you grow as an artist!!!

very creative painting good job

very creative painting good job

wow!

This is a nice painting , and glockman has got to learn to look before talking, I read your comment about not doing a sbs and did not look to see that one was done later. my humble apologies. Very nice and best of luck.

Thank you everyone!
@ Glockman: No worries mate! Thanks for the comment

Brilliant style! High marks from me

wowwwwwwwww

Beautiful author!!!! Amazing for your 2nd painting ever....I am inspired by your style.

Very beautiful! The water is like it flows before my eyes! Good work!

Great job, I would have placed more grass (or taller) in the right side to frame the image.

Fantastic piece author...very nice bright positive paint...well done

good job author GL

Nice.

Second painting - has wow factor! I love it.

thats great.....GL

2nd painting ever? seriously??
dang.
i'm thinking ya got a little bob ross training on ya. well done!

wonderful ...........

Thank you all for these really beautiful and lovely comments!

Wow lovely painting...........Good Luck Author.

congrats .

Congrats for 3rd

You've done a great work man. Congrats for your win.

Hey congrats to you!!! Keep them coming. Its freaking awesome playing with all this talent isnt it?

congrats on nice image...