Anny in Maine

[Mike McCarty]

Alexandra,

You have a light and confident touch. I like your paintings very much.

[Alexandra Tyng]

Thank you so much, Brenda, Carol (or is it Brenda/Carol?) and Mike!

That's just exactly the kind of weather and time I was trying to convey. I'm so glad it came across. Mike, I really appreciate your comment because I've been working really, really hard on so many aspects of painting in the last few years, and already I am looking back at stuff I did 3 or 4 years ago (paintings I thought were good) and now I see all sorts of things wrong with them.

[Lisa Ober]

Does it sound ridiculous that I can see a resemblence from your avatar to your mom? I guess it might. In any case, she is certainly a lovely woman and I am so fascinated with portraits in comfortable settings like this. What a gorgeous job you have done on the whole scene. You've captured such a warmth, such a comfort. She looks like such a peaceful person. Very nice painting, Alexandra.

[Tricia Migdoll]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.