Anny in Maine

Tricia Migdoll · 08-05-2005, 02:53 AM

Alexandra, this is so beautiful and quite touching.

I don't know what makes a painting special, but I think you have done it here. Apart from the way you captured the light and the sweet expression on your mothers face, the way you apply the paint seems so fluid & confident.

This is my first introduction to your work, as far as I remember. I am still getting to know you all via the images you post.
I must look out for you again in future.

Carol Norton · 08-05-2005, 08:20 AM

Alexandra, I didn't write that post, so Brenda must have. My avatar just got posted yesterday, so somehow, that may have caused the confusion. It is a lovely painting, however.
Carol

Alexandra Tyng · 08-05-2005, 08:54 AM

What a treat to start the day reading so many nice responses!
Thank you Lisa, Tricia, and Carol .(That is too funny, Carol, about the repeated message, and I'm glad to hear from you in reality.)

Lisa, I'm so flattered that you think I look somewhat like my mother, because I really don't have her classic features. In reality I look more like my father, though every once in a while someone will say adamantly that there is a strong general resemblence between me and my mother.

I think this painting has a kind of wistful quality for me, because my mother moved to CA last year at the age of 83, and we no longer rent that house due to a change of ownership. We had rented it for 30+ years. So there have been major upheavals in our lives and this painting was in some way a response to them or a meditation on them.

Molly Sherrick Phifer · 08-05-2005, 10:46 AM

I agree with the others that this piece gives me a strong sense of being there. I just can't get over the profound sense of depth you manage to invoke in both your indoor and outdoor paintings. Just amazing! I feel like I should be able to just reach into it.

Also, your ability to stay very painterly and yet portray a person in a super lifelike manner is wonderful. I'm am totally envious.

I definitely have to hang around and study your work!

Michele Rushworth · 08-05-2005, 12:14 PM

Lovely.

You've done a great job with a difficult issue, too: replacing one background with a completely different one, and with a challenging angled perspective too. I never would have thought she wasn't sitting in that spot to begin with.

Alexandra Tyng · 08-05-2005, 10:58 PM

Oh, Molly! I hardly know what to say.

Michele, you have been so supportive since I joined the forum, and I appreciate it very, very much.

Thanks for looking.