Complicity

Terri Ficenec · 07-07-2006, 04:26 PM

Just finished. This is 24x30", Oil on Canvas

Tom Edgerton · 07-07-2006, 05:17 PM

It's beautifully painted, Terri...

--T

Alexandra Tyng · 07-07-2006, 08:30 PM

Hey, it's great, Terri! To think we were both working on husband-wife teams at the same time. With pink and blue clothing, too. Hmm, I wonder if there was some extrasensory stuff going on between us? Their expressions are so wonderful. I can really feel their personalities. Can you tell us any background? I'd love to see some more closeups, too!

Terri Ficenec · 07-07-2006, 09:07 PM

Hi Tom -- Thanks!

Thanks Alex! These are my parents. . . Mom's been after me to paint them for a few years now, but I kept holding her off, fearing that whatever I did wouldn't quite please her.

. . . didn't want to portray them stiff and formal, they've got such dynamics between them. Came up with this interactive, casual set up as a way to highlight their relationship and make the portrait more interactive. Thought it was just so funny when you posted yours last week and there was that same gathered round the table, wife with direct gaze/husband not, sense of longstanding familiarity and affinity to it-- and yes even with the blue and the pink!

Julie Deane · 07-07-2006, 09:15 PM

Hi Terri-
I loved this when I saw it on the onlineartists forum. Beautiful finish! I love the sense of their personalities and relationship. Especially like your mom's gaze towards the viewer.

Marina Dieul · 07-07-2006, 11:00 PM

Very nice Terri!
There's so many love and complicity in the eyes. In the begining I kept looking at the woman, having a strange feeling, hard to describe, something very intimate...
Now I know it's your mother, I understand. She was looking at YOU, the painter and her daughter.
It's not a portrait of a couple, It's a portrait of parents with the presence of their daughter.
There's a depth of feelings here, a sort of " mise en ab

Garth Herrick · 07-08-2006, 01:04 AM

Dear Terri,

This is just super, and a favorite of mine. You know, we can tell who they are talking about,.... YOU! They've got to be proud.

Garth

Garth Parker · 07-08-2006, 01:39 AM

Hi Terri,
I see so much going on here

. Both their expressions are priceless.
The skin tones and lighting are superb.
Gorgeous work!
Jerome

Terri Ficenec · 07-08-2006, 03:31 AM

Julie-- Thanks so much! That 'look' is so characteristic of Mom, I had to have it in there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marina Dieul

. . . The painting represents the way your parents see you as well as the way you see your parents. . .

Marina-- Thanks so much for all the nice comments! This one especially struck me. . . Thought I was painting how I saw them and their relationship, but you're right, I think, that the interaction with me is part of it too. Hadn't thought of it that way before.

Thanks Garth! (Though as I recall, Mom was teasing Dad about something and thought she was being rather funny. . .)

Garth (Jerome) Thanks!

Mike McCarty · 07-08-2006, 03:03 PM

Terri,

I've enjoyed starring at this. What a nice gift to yourself.