Another quick & dirty drawing:

Ah nils, the power and simplicity of your work just always makes me catch my breath. Awesome colors too!

In this image, even though I know it's silouettes (if I spelled that right), I'm still wanting for some kind of "highlights". Like maybe some slight reflection around the trees on the horizon, or maybe some effect like faint star/moonlight on some brush? Or?? something? Maybe a couple of stars up in the dark blue part of the sky? Just some thoughts...

Thanks Brynn!

I have a plan for a highlight

good addition, I though the first version was a bit too dull, but this new element makes it a lot more interesting imho.

Thanks. I'm fairly happy with it, myself, so I'll call it "done".

Perfect Man i like it .
keep going

Wow, this is gorgeous. Perfect colouring; the amount of stars in the sky is just right for a sunset scene; the pair of fireflies and their reflections completely transformed the plain surface of the lake into a shimmering mirror. Great job as usual.

much more interesting - but fireflies? - is that what they are meant to be? I was thinking X-files ... I want to believe ...

but fireflies?

I wasn't sure if flashlights or 2 motorcycles. It remind me of when my dad would take my brother and me, when we were very young, 6 or 7 years old, frog hunting. My dad apparently grew up shooting frogs instead of frog gigging . But I was left alone while they walked around the pond, and I would see their flashlights from across the water. Nice memory, but I wanted to go with them Yeah, he grew up way out in the country, where frog legs were considered a delicacy

Butterflies? Interesting associations. I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp - which seemed perfect for a dark lake scene.

That they were fireflies was my first impression, and (personally for me) the most reasonable interpretation to that those blobs of light are, although they're white. Fireflies glow in a greenish yellow hue, but so is phosphine flame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp

Ooohh, the "swamp gas" phenomenon! At least that's what I've heard it called. I've never seen it, but really would love to. I had it pictured as something like lightening, from descriptions I've read. But now that I think of it, a glowing gas really would be more like a blob.

Yeah, I've never seen one either, I was thinking along the lines of "actual" will-o-wisps. I do a lot of fantasy gaming and parallel worlds stuff, so that fits right in there.

In my youth, we used to visit my grandparents a lot. A boring 2h drive, each way, and the return almost always included dusk and we'd arrive home when it was dark. On the way, there were all kinds of things you could see, of course. On Easter sunday, it's customary here in Germany to light huge "easter fires", bonfires that the locals meet at and celebrate. Old pagan rites, I am sure. So anyway once a year I'd get to see all those lights in the distance from the car and was simply a more mysterious world back then.