Newcomer reports in!

[Mikael Melbye]

Glad you liked the site. It will of course have an English version eventually, and hopefully some more photos of paintings.

Mt friend and I are running around packing the car to go to Rome for five weeks. (Life is so hard sometimes!!We got one of the apartment and a studio in the Danish Academy. So there are no excuses!


Richard Schmid and I met some years ago in New York during the large symposium of the Portrait Artist Society at The Metropolitan Museum and stroke up a wonderful friendship both with him and Nancy. He's a superb painter and teacher, and I've learned a great deal from him over the years.

I'll take the computer with me, so we can still communicate. Incidental, do you know how to put a link to my website in my profile? I can't seem to get that right.

Best wishes

Mikael

[Allan Rahbek]

Dear Mikael,

Yes I like your pictures very much, there is so much energy in your strokes and the way that you dispose the canvas. One can almost tell that you are comfortable with the area of a stage /scene.
I saw some of Schmid

[Mike McCarty]

Welcome Mikael,

Try this -- Click on your name above your avatar and then select "view public profile." In the top left of this page click "your controls," you should then see listed on the left "edit signature." Click this option and then type your name and web link in the large box. Such as:

Mikael Melbye
www.mikael-melbye.com

I hope that does it.

[Mikael Melbye]

Dear Mike,
Thanks for the tip. But it still doesn't show up in the members list orientation. (the globe). Is that something that you can correct yourself?

Best wishes, Mikael

[Mary Sparrow]

Awesome Studio. Gorgeous work, thanks for joining us Mikael! Welcome.

Mary

[Alexandra Tyng]

Mikael,

Your work is wonderful and fascinating. I just joined the forum myself, and I hope to see more of your work soon!

Alex Tyng

[Edgar Coleman]

Dear Mikael,

I want to extend a very warm welcome to such a multi-talented person.

I love the photos of your studio and greatly admire your painting of John O. Crosby of the Sante Fe Opera Festival. Also I really enjoy losing myself in the "Nocturne" painting that you are creating in Rome. It has a romantic, ethereal quality that is quite alluring and mysterious.

Thank you for sharing the work process of your travels in Rome.

Warm regards,

Edgar

[Mikael Melbye]

Thanks so much for the kind words. I hope to meet you and your work too. My web site is now also in English, so it will be a little more informative for the american friends.

Best,

Mikael

[Mikael Melbye]

Dear Allan,

Life is great in Rome...just finished a nice long format painting on some gorgeous pines in front of the institute. And I'm of with my friend to the restaurant Al Grand Sasso in vie di Ripetta which is our favorite. I'll drink a couple of glasses of wine in your honor.

Best wishes, Mikael

[Allan Rahbek]

Dear Mikael,

I just decided to ask "how is Rome". At home, here in Denmark it