Candyce & Fiona

[Alexandra Tyng]

Chris, thank you for posting this. It is one of my favorites of yours. As always, your use of color is bold, sensitive, harmonious, exciting, and poetic. The composition is incredibly well designed yet it appears spontaneous. (Perhaps it was a little of both, but it takes skill to recognize when you have a great moment.) There's a great feeling between mother and daughter, and I love seeing the daughter's resemblance to her mother. The close-ups really show this. It's a transcendent portrait!

[SB Wang]

This a must for a meaningful, wonderful, heartwarming
FATHER'S DAY!

[Julie Deane]

I really like this, Chris. As Alex said, great composition. Love the colors and the way it's painted.

That's a lot of work in a relatively small size!

[Chris Saper]

Thank you all very much. I was lucky in that I had the chance to go over to Candyce's home the week prior to try out different lighting, clothing and color options, although I had a fairly good idea about what I wanted beforehand.

We also had the chance to work out the relative figure heights which, as it was, took quite a while, given the available seating, pillows and all. I used natural light, supplemented by artificial light.