ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh............woow.......... always wanted a "Parrosus", where can I get one?

Harry Potter will be red-eye when I ride a Parrosus

nice colors, great blending.... almost PERFECT!!! (only feel that it the mane, tail and wings were more flowing... like hair, but this is only my personal preference)

Stunning ... excellent work, wonderful creation! If I could I would fav it 2 or 3 times!

OH THANKS Glad you guys like it so much!
I do see where you are coming from aheman, but I really wanted to stick with the totally feather approach. Thanks for your input though, much appreciated

Beautiful creation, wonderful color!! Well worth the effort you put into it! The revise makes it even better!

Wonderfully thought out and done.. AWESOME!!!

Excellent image!

Wonderful colours,nice reflection,it's a fantastic creation !

nice nice

nice color combination!

this looks like a cool animal
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NICE... WELL DONE but agreed with aheman. The flowing problems because there's a minor shadows in my opinion.

And this is just my input, Author: the Rim Lights should never be 100% white. Photographers will know about this, even if it's directly hit from the sun, there will be a little yellowish or even reddish for the rim lights.

Still, top notch blending, Author! High votes! Good Luck!

Beautiful composition, nice colors and wonderful creation.

Very nice work!!

Magnifique !

Thanks everyone!!!!

Hayato, thanks that was a good call, I updated the background so the light has more of an orangey glow, and is not so pristinely white.

Amazing!!!!

Love the bright colors author!..
amazing job!!!.

Amazing work, I sure wish it was real =)

hahaha ME TOO!!!! I want one!!!!

great work....awesome....

Absolutely stunning!

Fantastic work author.......... welcome back

Way Ti Go Author. Beautifully Mastered on the Coloring and Blending Work

Haha Thanks!!! and yes I've been away, was SUPER busy with work and just didn't have enough spare time to finished anything I was proud to enter, but I should have some time for a while now glad to be back!!!

Great chop

WOW WOW WOW! i don't like the head, but wow wow wow!

Excellent work.....Best of Luck Author.

Congrats!! Well done!

Congrats Robert lovely work.... I want one

Thanks everyone!!!!!

it was obvious! a huge CONGRATULATION from me!

Congratulations,well done !

wow very nice work!!

I love that you used all those intricate parts to create a completely different image. Wonderful color and feel to this. The nose area where it meets the face seems a bit too soft or blurry. That's my only observation. Really beautiful job, author!

This is awesome creative........Good Luck Author.

Wonderfully detailed very well made -- do agree with pixelkid the area where the "nose" and "face" join do seem a bit less sharp than the rest of this amazng work

its a super cool image!! GL

Pretty cool design ! I look forward to the day when your entries won't be so easily recognizable, but still looking awesome.

WOW... superb creative work!

Instant fave, love this = )

beautiful as usual

Top work author...Fav from me...GL

Beautiful - as always!!

Many thanks to all for the nice comments and support Above all thanks a lot Pixelkid and Alan, I should really pay more attention to how my images look in high res

Congrats Cornelia I do love seahorses, beautiful work

Congrats!!!

congrats Cornelia!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!!! Have a cookie!

note: cookie is purely hypothetical.

Congrats!!

F A N T A S T I C!

Great entry and a great sbs..., good luck to you

Beautiful. Nice work.

well shuck my corn and call me grits... I do declare I may have just peed myself.. a little (got my depends on so I am fine) .. Now do American Gothic ...purdy purdy purdy please?... hehehe.. super duper perfection.. and the SBS is exhaustingly excellent (I know exhaustingly is not a word but I may as well earn the thumbs down I'll get shortly... hehehe.. seems to be a trend LOL)

Any whooooooo... GREAT JOB!!!... I do back flips if I wasn't so top heavy (very big head) LOL

GOOD LUCK and awesome SBS!!!

Fabulous very peaceful scene author...i see some personal mark on this one...look very soul-ish...well done

so this is how to counterfit art - awesome work

Very, very nice!!! Yep!

Really nice, well done

Wyeth was a very subtle colorist. He was never this monochromatic. The hues of the main subject always stood out from the background.

Wonderful work, cool sbs! GL author

Hey man!! Love this result!!! Best of luck!!! fantastic!

wow! this is facinating!

On it's own it looks like a picture you took and just change the tones and texture, that's how good your blending is. But when you look at the SBS, you can really see how much work went in to this, and now I like it even more, goo job = )

@ Emik - Thank you so much for noticing. Your comment is really appreciated as I was afraid that the work I put into this would not get noticed!

Thanks to everyone for your comments and favs!

Very good entry.

WOW, this is incredible work, author! Great sbs, thanks for sharing, those are some interesting techniques. I think the high-pass adds a sort of sparkle to the foliage. I personally like the subdued tones and I think Mr. Wyeth would be impressed.

Again I want to thank all for the wonderful comments and recognition on this image. I was afraid it would be too suble.

I got really sick last Wednesday with what the think is Bronchitis or possibly Bronchial pneumonia so I did not get the voting and commenting I would like to have done but please believe me that as soon as I am on my feet again will be around to visit your latest art and fav anything I have missed! Hugs to all ... from afar as no-one wants what I have!

Congrats for 2nd

Congrats.., very nice work

Congrats!!

congrats and well done Nancie

This is why an SBS is so important - it's a pain to remember to grab a screen capture when in the throes of creating and tweaking, but only a detailed SBS reveals the intricacy of techniques used (and some great tricks!) This is strikingly beautiful in its subtlety.

As for some comments... last I knew, a tribute was a nod to a style, an interpretation, not an imitation.

I hate that you do hair so well and demand a one to one lesson! great image author!

Anytime my friend. Once you have the trick it is not too bad, just time and patience and it doesn't hurt to have a tablet

nice nice nice

very well
favourite entry

and the minute i saw this image, i knew ... you've done a LOVELY job. such a touching piece of work. and hey, when you teach geex, will you promise to teach me too???

Excellent command of the fantasy genre.. every image you make makes me think of fairy tales and story books.

Edit: My only suggestion would be to make the model's shadow a little lighter, it seems very dark at the moment (or maybe blur it more?) If not i'd darken up the shadow the horse is casting.

@ Ponti - Thank you for the critique. I was really unsure how dark to make her shadow and was hoping someone would comment. I have made some changes - lightened the models shadow and darkened the horse a bit. I think it looks better now. Thanks for the help, your comment was very much appreciated

I realize this is surrealism, so all bets are off, but the figure doesn't match the scale of the horse. All else is well done!

Thanks CMYK
I did check here http://figure-drawings.com/How-to-Draw-Proportions-3.html, as she is curled up I based the proportions on the size of her head (within reason as it is a fantasy/surreal image as you noted). I added a step to the SBS to show what I did ...Check it out and let me know what you think?

Look at images (photos) of horse and riders...the woman is just too small.

good work.

Would love to see this in really large scale. Nice job!

This is amazing entry author,really really amazing...and black and white mood is perfect for this...your details are perfect...love the lucid feel of movement on horse tail and mane...And as for the size of the horse and the model...don't worry author...this is the Nahar horse of the Valar god Oromë and he is huge...on his back is Arien the maiden whom the Valar chose from among the Maiar to guide the vessel of the Sun...through clouds and sky Nahar take Arien to the Sun...so for that quest horse have to be huge...

erathion: If there was a super, double gold thumbs up it would be yours! What a wonderful story! I had forgotten about Nahar (LOTR... right?) Thank you so much for sharing your vision of my vision (I will have to steal the story for future use)!

wow ...... wonderful imagination..... really a dream work ...... all the best to u author .......

A whole story in a picture.. Love it, great execution, amazing hair. I thought the size of the horse's back was to big, but it didn't bother me one bit, it fits the purpose of this image very well.. I even think when the horse was the "right" size it would have not looked as surreal as it did and did not have the ability to mesmerize, what it sure does now.. Great work author and good luck!

congratulations...

Congrats!!

congrats for the 2nd place, beautiful job...

cool

very nice work author...best of luck

it is amzing ,good luck

Thank you all for you nice comments!

I don't know the reason, I just like it.

@locale, good enough reason for me ) Thanx

Someone is an Enigma fan. GL!

LOL @jashoewhah, I can't deny that I have plenty of albums of Enigma, this turned out in some sort of a Enigma-ish image, thought It fitted the mood Thanx!

WOW! This is amazing! Great idea and well executed IMO