"Fiddler's" Glen A.K.A. Paradise Valley

Here's my two cents. 8x10, oil on canvas board.
As always, C&C greatly appreciated!

I started thinking about Paradise and all our talk of "Fiddling" and thought of the Fiddler's Green Legend: It is a mythical afterlife (Paradise) where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing (me and my brush!) and dancers who never tire. I changed it to Glen, because it is a valley.

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Comment by Ningning Li on August 9, 2014 at 1:28: Great overall colour harmony! beautiful. I enjoy your light and shadow contrast very much as you did them in such a detail way which made them so vivid and different from each other but as a unit. Great Job, Betsy!!!

Comment by Betsy Jenkins on July 23, 2014 at 17:09: Thanks Lori, Dorian and Ian!

Ian, I really LOVE your painting, too. And I finally saw what you meant about my horizon line. I am slow on the uptake some days, but I was sitting here looking at it and boom! I saw it! Don't know why I couldn't see it before.

Comment by Dorian Aronson on July 23, 2014 at 13:40: Super Betsy! Smiles to you :-)

Comment by Betsy Jenkins on July 23, 2014 at 10:03: Gee, thanks, Michael! This is my favorite work of everything that I have done so far.

Comment by Lori Ippolito on July 23, 2014 at 3:53: Beautiful painting Betsy..enjoy your birthday adventures..and happy birthday to all our July buddies!!

Comment by Walda Juhl on July 23, 2014 at 3:40: What great act of "fiddling"!! Nicely done, Betsy.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 23, 2014 at 3:09: Very well done Betsy!! ...your values are right on. I really like the layered strokes of thick paint in your light passages!! ..really sparkles. Your mountains are rugged and hold our attention while still maintaining their place in space ..the relationship you achieved between mountain and sky, set everything up nicely. Well done Betsy.

Comment by Olivia O'Carra on July 19, 2014 at 8:58: Thanks everyone for the wishes hope to get lots of photos to share.

Comment by Silvana M Albano on July 18, 2014 at 12:50: Super great Olivia!!! Enjoy that wonderful trip!!!! I've never been to Russia, but it must be beautiful! Take a lot of pictures so that you can paint wonderful paintings!!!! I'd be glad to see them too!!!! I'll tell about this to my children. Perhaps, they'll remember when they grow up and we'll be sent somewhere on a trip!!! :) !!! (They are 14 and 11).

Comment by Betsy Jenkins on July 18, 2014 at 12:08: My parents went to St Petersburg and brought back amazing video. I know you'll enjoy the art museum/summer palace! And they took a boat ride along the river that they enjoyed! Be sure to take lots of pictures for future paintings. We will all be looking forward to seeing them!