Gorgeous.... D:
I want to be able to paint like you!

If I were to try to do this with paint, it would end up one big green mess, and there would be no discernible image. I love that it's all shades of green.

You said that's _not_ fleshed out yet? -drools-

love what you do with color. perfect mix of murky sea critter and transparency in water <3

Nice work!

really wonderful job in the variation of the textures, everything flows into everything so beautifully.

aren't oils wonderful? :D cept when you don't use thinner they take forever to dry, but i love them. The blending you accomplished with them is absolutely beautiful. You really have a knack for them

Oils do give a fantastic depth of colour, and it looks like you've done a really good job at mixing them on the canvas, too. And the speed impresses me- my own attempts at oil painting usually take days to complete piecemeal.

I've never experimented with oils before, and I admit the smell gets to me from time to time. I love the texture effect on the water and the atmospheric depth with the highlights in the back. I wouldn't mind going back to watercolors someday. :3

The smell is exactly why I can't work with them as much as I'd like D: And my room is super well ventilated. The turps just knocks me over >_<

outstanding

you make such incredible fantasy art. amazing!

Make sure you mount/store it right. Bristol would probably do something funny over time.

Sometimes I see a picture of yours or some other awesome person's authorship that is completely perfect as far as my tastes are concerned, but I just can't fish out this little realization of just what does the trick in making this piece perfect. So I do the best I can without resorting to posting long-winded self-absorbed struggle to get the jist of how I feel about the drawing(kinda like what I do right now): I fave it. So it's not that I don't regard the picture highly enough to comment - it's that I can't dredge up any epithets worthy of it's awesomeness.

This is precisely the case with this picture. I've seen orginal Aivazovsky pieces in the national gallery and this painting of yours. while not being a wall-large and being worth a decade of effort, does quite similiar things to my retinas, eliciting a prolongued staring at the painting with a slacked jaw and occasional drooling. All that intuitional/ingenious usage of whitish paint for both sea foam and reflections on turbulent water's surface, dim light of the backgound that seems to somehow pierce the thick waves, exposing the cashe of gemstones within - it's all the same great marine artists' fare.
But yours has a dragon in it ! Yay dragon ! Or is it sea serpent or a saltwater elemental ? No matter, still awesome ;3

Also, those little technical nuances you muse over now and then give the bouquet of your art an extra charm.

it's fairly blurred but the shap of the dragon still comes out very well and thats so cool<3

This reminds me of Mary GrandPre's art.

I love how there are very few distinct outlines and that the colors are all in the yellow/green range. We can clearly see the sea beast, but every piece of it could be rationalized as something less out-of-the-ordinary given the context... like catching a glimpse of the Loch Ness monster as you turned your head, but, thinking back, it could have been just a log with an awkward shadow, or some such. A monster you can remember, but almost deniable.