Anna in Yakut dress

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Originally Posted by Chris Saper

This probably feels like a "miniature" to you.

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Hello Chris!

Don't forget that even my monumental pieces were always made like miniatures...

PS: Always astonished by your productivity in portraits!

[Alexandra Tyng]

Sergio,

You are one of the few artists who can use your meticulous rendering to capture life instead of freezing the life out of the person. I'm so impressed! Her staring eyes are compelling and a bit daunting, but I think it's their totally unexpected blue color that makes me want to find out more about her. The combinaton of expresion, facial features and costume seems somehow incongruous, as if she is an odd mixture of cultures. Very intriguing. I'd love to know a little bit about how you came to paint her.

[Lisa Gloria]

Beautiful colors and textures, Sergio. What a delight. Her gaze is fascinating - I've come to look at her again and again. Thanks for sharing.

[Thomasin Dewhurst]

Sergio, I really enjoy your honest appreciation of your own work! I also really enjoyed your firefighter piece that was selected for a recent BP Portrait award, very much. So moving, and so wonderfully designed. I also like that you are so proud of being a firefighter as well as an artist. You're so cool!

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Sergio, I have missed seeing you around as well and I love your comeback - you absolutely knocked my socks off with this stunning piece!

I have always admired how you get those eyes so life-like and now I can feast my eyes on the wonderful textures you have created. Nice to have you back!

[Dan Landrie]

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[Sergio Ostroverhy]

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[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng

Sergio,
... capture life instead of freezing the life out of the person...
...makes me want to find out more about her ...
...as if she is an odd mixture of cultures.
...how you came to paint her.

Dear Alexandra,

Thank You for so many precise an clearsighted remarks.
Concerning the "freezing the life out of a person":
Well... basically I must say you that IT WAS LITERALLY HOW I MET ANNA.
Besides being a fireman I also organized in my past survival trips in the Siberian Taiga for rich businessmen in hunger of adrenaline. One of the trip turned out to be a REAL survival, and freezing almost to death in the snow I prayed God:
"Let me get out of this and I promise I will paint 25h per day"
So...then suddenly when all hope left us:
...in the milky fog and the snow ...in front of us behind the trees ...a pair of shining blue eye appeared... ...that of a husky dog ...and then ...and then ...of ANNA
with a huge, absolutely gorgeous, unbelievably desirable
hot cup of tea in her hand...

[Dan Landrie]

An absolutely stunning piece Sergio, since viewing your firemen drawing you are one of the artist I try to emulate in my drawings and now after viewing this work also in my paintings.

Hope you will forgive my earlier comment, I was only trying to be jocular, by stating something that was I thought would be interpreted as humorous, as it was obvious to me that this painting is nothing short of perfect in it's execution.

[Sergio Ostroverhy]

Thanks Lisa,

Loved your orange juice still life!
Became thirsty looking at it,
it was so real!