===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Statues of naked women...how can you argue with that? Quite readily actually...I'm surprised there haven't been more of these. Naked women aside, composition, layout, and color are excellant. However, the image seems a little thin on the detailed modeling side...too simplistic, yet that's not always a bad thing. The flowers, and pond are beautiful, and the temple is a nice touch. Yet, the picture semes bottom heavy created by the stark contrast between the busy yet colorful pattern of flowers and the empty space of the sky and hills. The image would have looked more complete had you added some flowers to the hills. The owl looks cool...but out of place. Overall, good job. ===== From clintona@ibm.net: I love the water! The sky and models are nicely done too. ===== From YaelParis@operamail.com: hills on the background are too flat. The garden in the foreground is good but it lacks something... Don't know what but.. ===== From rbyman@rockies.net: Lots of good stuff here but it just doesn't seem to fit together. The brightly coloured flowers clash in a way that real flowers seem to be able to avoid. I like the water and the lilies but lose all the frogs. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Everything is perfect except for the texture on the hillside. ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: good use of the theme. I like it when people pull from there own images instead of copying something. ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: Very nice, but the water looks a bit static and the background lacks detail. ===== From ameede@madmac.com: OK Raymond you are my last critique before taking a break :-} You put alot of forethought into this work. By including the human figure and using the technique and style to create the figures was excellent, it helps in the reading the work. Furthermore, your layout of the objects within the scene couldn't have been done better. The use of the figures to bracket the scene, the shape of the pool leading into the center of the scene, the use of the block wall to create a smooth transition into the background all helps the viewer move into and out of the piece. My only negative about the work it that you might have tried to use the same cookie cut-out technique on the structure in the background. Otherwise, this work exemplifies a kind of intergrative thought process that includes the elements of the artworld that being: studio, criticism, aesthetics, and historical practices. Great work. ameede@madmac.com ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: I'm sorry to say but I did not recognise the sun and moon or the gold and silver. Actually may I put my opinion there : I would have made the one standing up god rather - sun usually operates and rightly so symbolises the day and I would think an upright statue may represent that period better ; when the one half lying down would be closer to night time in my eyes and therefore more appropriately associated with the moon. Of course this is only how I see it and is a matter for taste and debate. Your explanation sounds reasonable as well. ===== From karl@pemail.net: The mixture of shiny and flat objects don't blend well with the rest of the scene. Nice idea ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - very nicely done but wouldn't the sun and moon goddess's look better done in a similar style to the earth goddess? Artistic - very pleasing to look at, colours and shadowing very well done Theme - a very nice garden with a message too ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: A nice little garden scene, but like many in this round devoid of much interest in the background. The foreground modelling (plants, statues etc) looks fine - perhaps a little colour variation would improve realism - but the background is just too empty. The temple and moon help of course, but even then it seems this is a garden with no surroundings.