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