Nancy Bea Miller

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-11-2007, 01:46 PM

You're very talented, aren't you. I'm so envious! I want to do that too!

Alexandra Tyng · 02-11-2007, 10:45 PM

Sharon, thanks! I'd heard somewhere that if you've entered a piece three times without success, then you should stop trying. But my artist friends around here kept saying it was their favorite, so I thought, "Okay, I'll just save it for the Woodmere next year and see what happens." And voila! So three times isn't always the charm.

Thomasin, oh, you are too much! You do what YOU do so very, very well, of course you don't want to do what I do. You should have seen the junk I was doing when I was in my 30s. You are SO much better it isn't funny!

Marina Dieul · 02-12-2007, 09:19 AM

Congratulations, Alex! It's very well deserved and it is one of my favorite of yours too!

Alexandra Tyng · 02-13-2007, 10:48 AM

Marina, thanks so much! I'm flattered you all thought this old thread was worth dredging up.

Garth Herrick · 02-14-2007, 12:15 AM

Oh Alex,

You are so modest! I was in a three person show with you when we were in our thirties. You were GOOD! So good. I was afraid of you then. We had not met yet.

I did threaten to dredge up this thread, at the opening, but you did not want me to so I did not. You are too modest. Congratulations again (I congratulated you at the opening and award ceremony). It was great to see Nancy Bea in person as well.

You have received a very fine honor at an especially noteworthy show (in my humble opinion).

There are only seventy (well, I can vouch for 69 of them if you know what I mean) very interesting artists featured in this Woodmere exhibition. Perhaps their best show yet!

I have a picture. I will have to find it and post it.

Garth

Alexandra Tyng · 02-14-2007, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Garth Herrick

There are only seventy (well, I can vouch for 69 of them if you know what I mean) very interesting artists featured in this Woodmere exhibition.

I'll vouch for the 70th.

Thanks, Garth and Dianne!

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-14-2007, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng

Thomasin, oh, you are too much! You do what YOU do so very, very well, of course you don't want to do what I do. You should have seen the junk I was doing when I was in my 30s. You are SO much better it isn't funny!

This is probably the reason you are so good - you don't think you're good enough! I can't paint a figure in a whole room full of details and objects with such consistency, balance, and truly felt and understood perspective, and keep the figure the focal point and full of character and life. And you talk about the clarity of my light. Well, in this work you have such a clear, convincing daylight, and it is everywhere throughout the painting. And you paint hands so well (and tables: so wonderfully wood-like and flat!) - it takes me about 5 years to do hands, and then they still look like playdough, or not really attached to the arms. No, you are really good, but keep believing you're not because you'll get even better, and even more of an inspiration.

(Thanks again for your comments, though and your interest. Very much appreciated!)

Alexandra Tyng · 02-15-2007, 10:29 AM

Thomasin, thank you again. Your words mean a lot. However, you do things with your painting that I admire, too. I guess we could call it mutual admiration.

Alexandra Tyng · 02-15-2007, 11:01 AM

Sorry, Garth and Dianne, I didn't see your posts.

Garth, unfortunately I never got to see that show (in 1988), but I heard all about the other talented artist, and then finally years later you showed me some of your work that was in it. It's very, very impressive! I have to say, though, I think we have both come a long way since then, and hopefully you are no longer afraid of me.

Dianne, thank you so much! That is exactly what I wanted to say in the portrait, so I am glad it came across.

Terri Ficenec · 02-15-2007, 05:15 PM

Alex --(coming late to this) Congratulations on the award! This is one of my favorites of yours too!