Daddy's Girl

[John Reidy]

Terri

There is nothing left for me to say except my own personal first impression - WOW!

I love the handling of every element. I feel as if the girl is actually solid and in front of her father and her father is bending over his lovely girl. You have accomplished the real 3rd dimension. Your color is something to behold as well.

Thanks for sharing. I must get back to painting now.

John

[Terri Ficenec]

You made my day --Thanks John!

[Terri Ficenec]

This piece (and a little still-life) were accepted into a regional juried art show (multi-media/all sorts of styles...). To be fair, I suspect the 'region' in this case is generally the surrounding towns. . . but still it's a first for me to have paintings displayed in public. Fun!

[Patricia Joyce]

Terri,

WOW! and Ditto on everyone's remarks about how engaging, three dimentional, beautiful this painting is. It is very moving, the energy between father and child is felt. And she is ADORABLE - you did a magnificent job on her. My very favorite of yours to date!!!!

YOU spur me on and give me hope that I can integrate all I've read and seen here on the forum too.

Now, I can't wait to get to my studio!!!

Congratulations on getting two pieces in the show. Enjoy the publicity - I look forward to hearing about the positive responses you will get from showing this beautiful little gem!

One technical question: the background reads very dark on my screen. Can you tell me how dark it actually is and what colors were used on the background?? Thanks.

[Jean Kelly]

Hi Terri,

I'm glad this came up again, I missed commenting on it before. As many others have said, I love this!

Jean

[Terri Ficenec]

Thanks Jean!

[Michele Rushworth]

Sorry to hear this, Terri.

no awards on this one! The jurying's done... nothing that was at all realistic won any of the awards.

Pearls before swine...

[Rob Sullivan]

BOOOO to that jury!

Coming in late on this one still doesn't mean I can't say WOW! I love the little girl's expression. The value compression in the foreshortened daddy's face must have been tough, but you pulled it off without a hitch!

Since I am (relatively) new to this forum, I have't had the chance to follow your progress from work to work... so I went back and looked - hope you don't mind my snooping! Well, I concur with all here re: the great leaps and bounds. The resources you cited for information and inspiration are all wonderful tools, and I, too have benefitted from them.

Looking forward to the next one!

[Richard Monro]

Terri, You hit the mark with this one. I absolutely love the expressions. Well done.

[Terri Ficenec]

Thanks Richard!