Pastor of Munstergeleen

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Hello Scott,

just amazed by the delicate treatment of the hands...

[Scott Bartner]

Garth: Thank you for your quite overwhelming remarks. I think the absolute beauty of this Forum is the role it plays as a source of inspiration, so that artists living thousands of miles apart can become excited and stimulated by each other

[Peter Jochems]

I think it's the best painting I've seen here on the forum. It reminds me of the best works of Holbein.

[Linda Brandon]

Scott,

This is an astounding painting, piercing and calm and - can I say this? - very spiritual in a clear, intelligent and unsentimental way. I can't tear my eyes away from that face.

There are a couple of artists on the Forum that paint in ways that seem to me to be essentially unphotographable, and you're one of them. I would really love to see this in person.

I always feel a little out of my league commenting on your paintings because they seem so different compared to my own style. It's amazing to me that you can portray such intensity with such tight brushwork and careful color control.

[SB Wang]

Scott,

When you discussed Sargent in depth, I know you have keen eyes. Sargent likes Ingres, a new trend in China is in his direction as well.

I enjoy this master piece.

[Scott Bartner]

Peter: I

[Linda Brandon]

Scott, more than anyone else who posts work here, you get that ethereal, eerie Northern light feeling in your work.

I've been in this kind of light a couple of times - the western coast of Wales and New Zealand come to mind, and I'm told the Hebrides are also this way, although I've never been there.

There's a spooky mystery to this kind of light that is hard to describe. I can't do so because now that I've posted that I need angel's wings, I'm in danger of losing my Forum Credibility License.

This painting radiates a fiercely controlled tonalism, a stern refusal to provide cheap color thrills.

(When this painting arrives in Arizona we will give him a poncho and a red feather boa.)